Scherrer v. Plaza Bowl Investment Co.

WEIGHTMAN, Special Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant from-an order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, which order sustained the plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial after a-, verdict had been returned against the plaintiffs and in favor of the defendant in the-plaintiffs’ suit for the loss of a $600 fur coat from the defendant’s checkroom in its bowling place.

The parties are referred to throughout this opinion as they were in the trial court..

The plaintiffs filed their petition in a Magistrate Court in Kansas City, Missouri-. They alleged they were the owners of a-$600 fur…