Sofian Ex Rel. Sofian v. Douglas

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, then a girl some nineteen or twenty years of age, in being run down by defendant's automobile, driven by himself, while she was walking across a public street in the city of St. Louis. The jury gave her a verdict for $1,000. She filed a motion for a new trial upon the grounds, among others, that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, was inadequate and was the result of passion and prejudice of the jury. The motion was sustained by the trial court for the reason, as assigned of record, that "the court feels that the…