Ross v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

BOHLING, Commissioner.

Ethel Ross recovered a $25,000 judgment against the St. Louis Public Service Company, a corporation, for damages arising *850out of a collision between the automobile of plaintiff and a motorbus of the defendant. Plaintiff’s petition charged primary and humanitarian negligence, but plaintiff predicated a verdict only on defendant’s duty to stop or slacken speed under the humanitarian doctrine. Defendant appealed and "contends plaintiff failed to make a humanitarian case, plaintiff’s verdict directing instruction was erroneous, and the verdict was the result of bias,…