Jordon ex rel. Jordon v. Johnson

TITUS, Judge.

Plaintiff Mary N. Jordon was a seventeen-year-old pedestrian on March 27, 1965, when she was struck and injured at 6th and Wall Streets, Joplin, Missouri, by a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Gary Johnson, then sixteen years of age. Gary, as the damage suit defendant disappointed with the trial court’s refusal to sustain his motion for directed verdict at the close of the evidence, and dissatisfied with the $5,000 jury verdict returned for Mary, has appealed. Defendant’s alleged humanitarian negligence in failure to slacken speed, swerve, or sound a warning constituted plaintiff’s sole…