Martin v. Sherrell

STONE, Presiding Judge.

In this jury-tried action at law, plaintiff Elizabeth Martin sought $5,000 for personal injuries and $200 for property damage to her 1954 Chevrolet sedan al*211leged to have resulted from a collision with a 1955 Chevrolet sedan driven by defendant Virgil James Sherrell, then seventeen years of age, on a graveled country road near Rolla, Missouri, just before sundown on October 4, 1964. By a nine-man jury verdict, plaintiff was awarded $125 for personal injuries and $175 for property damage; and, from the judgment entered on that verdict, defendant appeals.

Plaintiff’s…