Triplett v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

SAM C. BLAIR, Special Judge.

A jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis awarded the plaintiff a verdict against the defendant in the sum of $12,000 for personal injuries, and the defendant appeals.

Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. In the outset, plaintiff argues that the sufficiency of the evidence is not open to question on this appeal, for the reason that plaintiff submitted “the same identical humanitarian theory” on “identical evidence” at a prior trial of this cause, and on appeal from the judgment defendant failed to raise any…