White v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

*114DALTON, J.

This cause reaches the writer on reassignment. It is an action for $4,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on account of defendant’s negligence. Plaintiff fell and was injured while boarding one of defendant’s busses as a fare-paying passenger. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff for One Thousand One Hundred ($1100.00) Dollars, but the trial court sustained defendant’s motion for a new trial and set the verdict and judgment aside on the ground of error in the giving of plaintiff’s Instruction No. 1. Plaintiff appealed to the St. Louis Court of Appeals…