Ukman v. Hoover Motor Express Co.

COIL, Commissioner.

Defendants-appellants have appealed from a judgment for $15,000 entered on plaintiff-respondent’s verdict in his claim for damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained when plaintiff’s station wagon, traveling east on Pine Street in St. Louis, was struck by defendant Hoover’s tractor-trailer being driven north on 21st Street by Hoover’s employee, defendant Rock. Defendants contend that plaintiff failed to make a submissible case, that the court erred in giving an instruction, and that the judgment is excessive.

Plaintiff, who chose to submit his case to the jury solely…