Heifner v. Sparks

OLDHAM, Special Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant Sparks (the parties are hereinafter referred to by their designations in the court below) from a judgment in the sum of $10,000.00 rendered upon the verdict of a jury in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Missouri. Washington County is within the territorial district of this court and the amount involved is less than $15,000.00, therefore jurisdiction of this appeal is in the St. Louis Court of Appeals.

On August 4, 1962, plaintiff Gladys Heif-ner’s husband, Albert Heifner, was found unconscious on the ground near a pond, which he…