Burke Ex Rel. Burke v. Pappas

Plaintiff, a minor about seventeen years of age, sued to recover damages resulting from personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligent operation of an automobile owned and operated by defendants in their business upon a public street in the city of St. Louis. Plaintiff, a pedestrian, was injured at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Sixteenth Street about 5:30 P.M. on December 14, 1922. The petition charges defendants with several acts of negligence, but the cause was submitted by plaintiff to the jury solely upon the humanitarian, or last-chance, doctrine of negligence,…