Ward v. McQueen

CRANDALL, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendants John and Brenda McQueen from a judgment entered against them pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $7,500. On appeal they assert plaintiff failed to make a submissible case. We affirm.

Defendants were the owners of an apartment building in the City of St. Louis. About four months prior to the accident giving rise to this suit, they rented a one bedroom apartment to plaintiffs mother. Plaintiff is a minor, who was either six or eighteen months old at the time of the accident.1 The apartment was on the third floor with a…