Mendenhall v. Neyer

C.A. Neyer and J.J. Griesemer, copartners, doing business as Neyer Construction Company, and Virgil Lawrence, defendants below, appeal from an order sustaining Birttie Mendenhall's, plaintiff below, motion for new trial. The court granted the new trial on the ground error had been committed in giving instructions Nos. 8, 10 and 12 on behalf of said appellants. Respondent seeks $10,000 for the alleged wrongful death of Amos Mendenhall, her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall and five children, including Oscar, a minor of eighteen, and Irva, an adult, lived on a farm near Cedar Grove, Missouri.…