Moore v. Huff

JOHN C. CASEY, Special Judge.

Plaintiff, a passenger riding in defendant’s automobile, obtained a jury verdict of $9,000 as damages for personal injuries against defendant. This appeal was taken from the order overruling defendant’s motion for directed verdict or alternatively for a new trial.

The automobile collisions out of which this action arose occurred on an 18 foot wide two lane portion of old highway 67 at a point about five miles south of Flat River, Missouri, on September 11, 1959. Plaintiff was a passenger riding in the rear seat of a 1955 Mercury being operated south on Highway 67…