Zander v. St. Louis Transit Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Robert M. Foster, Judge. (1) An examination of the testimony will show that substantially all of the evidence was brought by, plaintiff and made in favor of his case, which, furthermore, was strengthened by nearly all of the testimony brought by defendant and impaired by none. (2) The trial court gave nineteen instructions to the jury covering ten pages of the closely printed matter of plaintiff’s very .largely paged abstract.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Robert M. Foster, Judge. (1) An examination of the testimony will show that substantially all of the evidence was brought by, plaintiff and made in favor of his case, which, furthermore, was strengthened by nearly all of the testimony brought by defendant and impaired by none. (2) The trial court gave nineteen instructions to the jury covering ten pages of the closely printed matter of plaintiff’s very .largely paged abstract. This alone, conceding each instruction to be correct, was enough to lead the jury into the quagmires of utter…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis in favor of defendant. The judgment was rendered at the February term, 1904, and after an ineffectual motion for a new trial the plaintiff appealed to this court. The action is for damages for personal injuries to plaintiff, a teamster, by the alleged negligence of defendant’s motorman in charge of one of its street cars, in running said car into the wagon which plaintiff was driving, on the night of December 10, 1902, at a point on South Broadway, a short distance north of Bowen street. The petition in substance…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Hayden v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1894
- Payne v. Chicago & Alton RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- Theobald v. St. Louis Transit Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1905
- Montgomery v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1904
- Conner v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1904
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- Wiley v. Rutland RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1913
- Cox v. JonesOregon Supreme Court · 1931
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