Albert J. Hoppe, Inc. v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

[ 348] Albert H. Iioppe, Inc. (hereinafter called plaintiff) sued the St. Louis Public Service Company (hereinafter called defendant) for damages to plaintiff’s hearse which resulted from an intersection collision with defendant’s bus at 22nd and Madison Streets in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 28, 1948. Upon the verdict of the jury judgment was entered for defendant on March 24, 1949.

Fourteen days after the judgment plaintiff filed a paper which it denominated a “motion for new trial”. Twenty-nine days after the judgment, without notice to any of the parties and without any hearing, the trial…