Wente v. Shaver

Action under the compensatory section of the death statute to recover $10,000 damages for the alleged wrongful death of Anna L. Pollard. At the close of plaintiff's case, the court gave a peremptory direction to the jury to find for defendant. Thereupon plaintiff took an involuntary nonsuit with leave to move to set the same aside. Motion to set aside was overruled and plaintiff appealed.

The cause was first filed in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis, and a nonsuit taken in that case. Thereafter, the cause was filed in the circuit court of St. Louis County, resulting in a nonsuit, as…