Byars v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

Plaintiff in the St. Louis County Circuit Court obtained judgment in the sum of $10,000 damages for personal injuries, against both defendants, St. Louis Public Service Company and Fehlig-Ferrenbach, Inc. From this judgment both defendants took separate appeals which we will consider together.

Appellant, St. Louis Public Service Company at the time of respondent's injury, October 24, 1929, operated an electric street railway system. Part of this system was a westbound single track on Washington Avenue, in Kirkwood, St. Louis County, over which track ran cars of the Kirkwood-Ferguson and…