Rook v. John F. Oliver Trucking Company

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant-appellant, John F. Oliver Trucking Company (hereinafter Oliver) from an order of the Circuit Court of Gasconade County entered November 6, 1972 overruling Oliver’s motion to set aside a judgment which was entered by default on August 7, 1972 in favor of the plaintiff-respondent Juanita Lee Rook in the amount of $4,770.00.

The facts precipitating this controversy originated on December 11, 1971 in Her-mann, Missouri. On that date Mrs. Rook parked her automobile on an incline on a street in that city. On the opposite side of the street…