Williams v. Bailey

HOLSTEIN, Chief Judge.

This is a wrongful death action. Plaintiffs are the mother and the personal representative of the deceased father of Johnnie Nicole Gott, a female child born August 30, 1980. Following a jury verdict, judgment was entered in favor of defendants. The plaintiffs appeal.

On September 12,1986, Johnnie Gott was a first grade student in the New Madrid County R-l Schools and a passenger on one of the district’s buses being operated by Thomas Bailey. Bailey stopped the school bus at a point about one bus length forward of the place where Johnnie and other students customarily got…