Ziegelmeier v. East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co.

Plaintiff filed this suit in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, to recover damages, resulting from personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained in a collision of an automobile in which plaintiff was riding and a street car, owned and operated by defendant company. Plaintiff received a verdict for thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000). The trial court reduced this to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). From this judgment defendant appealed.

From the record we learn that, at a previous trial, the jury failed to return a verdict. The collision in which plaintiff was…