Yarnall v. Gass and Montague

Appellant, plaintiff below, brought suit for personal injuries incurred in an automobile accident. At the close of her evidence defendants offered an instruction for a directed verdict, which was given. From the judgment rendered thereunder, plaintiff has appealed.

In substance, the material facts alleged in plaintiff’s petition are that defendant Doyle Gass was the owner of a Ford truck engaged -in delivering United States mail and the same was being used in conducting a mail route from Marysville, Kansas to St. Joseph, Missouri; that both defendants are nonresidents of Missouri; that it was…