Legal Opinion · Dissent

Shinn v. United Railways Co.

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided February 1, 1910Published

Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Virgil Rule, Judge.

1Dissent

DISSENTING OPINION.

REYNOLDS, P. J.

I regret that 1 am unable to concur in the reasoning or conclusion of my learned associates, on the assigned error in the instruction as to the measure of damages. I preface what I have to say by a somewhat fuller statement of the record.

This is an action instituted before a justice of the peace. On a finding for plaintiff, the case was appealed to the circuit court and there tried before the court and jury. The petition or statement sets out that *732plaintiff wa^ injured by reason of the carelessness of defendant’s agents and servants, in starting a car with a…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Browning v. Wabash Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1894
  2. Geismann v. Missouri-Edison Electric Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1903
  3. Barth v. Kansas City Elevated Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1898
  4. Tinkle v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
  5. Smoot v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1906

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