Merz v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from SI. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The court below erred in permitting the plaintiff, against defendant's objections, to read to the jury the ordinance referred to in the petition, to-wit: Ordinance number 10,305, entitled ‘£ An ordinance to regulate the speed within the limits of the city of St. Louis of cars and locomotives propelled bjr steam power;” and also in not giving to the jury at the close of the case, defendant’s instruction excluding such ordinance from…
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Appeal from SI. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The court below erred in permitting the plaintiff, against defendant's objections, to read to the jury the ordinance referred to in the petition, to-wit: Ordinance number 10,305, entitled ‘£ An ordinance to regulate the speed within the limits of the city of St. Louis of cars and locomotives propelled bjr steam power;” and also in not giving to the jury at the close of the case, defendant’s instruction excluding such ordinance from the consideration of the jury, for the reason that said ordinance is unreasonable, unauthorized by any" power in the…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
This suit‘was. brought by plaintiff to recover damages for the loss of the services of his minor child, who was run overby three_of 'defendant’s cars being *675operated in the limits of the city of St. Louis, whereby he lost his right arm. He obtained judgment in the circuit court for $1,703, which was affirmed by the St. Louis court of appeals, and the case is before us on appeal from that judgment.
The appeal being from a judgment for a less sum than twenty-five hundred dollars gives us no. jurisdiction of the case unless it appears that it falls within one of the classes of the cases specified…
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