Brown v. St. Louis Public Service Company

FINCH, Judge.

Plaintiff’s personal injury action resulted in a verdict in her favor for $5,000. Defendant’s motion for new trial contained numerous assignments of error, but the trial court granted a new trial on the single ground that

“ * * * the word ‘direct’ before the word ‘result’ in the second last line *257of MAI No. 4.01 is left out in Instruction No. 6.” The court order then stated: “Said omission of said word allowed the jury to award sums to plaintiff for damages she sustained even though they were not sustained and would not be sustained in the future as a ‘direct result of the…