Porter v. St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the respondent while riding in one of appellant's street cars in the city of St. Joseph, in January, 1922. Upon a trial to a jury there was a verdict for the appellant. Respondent's motion for a new trial was sustained on the ground that the court had erred in giving instructions numbered seven and eight at the request of the appellant.

These instructions are as follows:

"7. The court instructs you that even if you should find and believe from the evidence that plaintiff was made nervous solely by reason of the collision described…