Lacks v. Wells.

This case comes to the writer upon reassignment. It is an appeal by plaintiff in a personal injury suit for $10,000 from a judgment for defendants on a directed verdict.

The case was tried upon plaintiff’s second amended petition, which, after formal allegations as to the corporate existence of defendants and their relations each to the other, alleged that “on or about the 15th day of March, 1927, at about eleven o’clock in the morning, plaintiff was passenger on a southbound Jefferson Avenue street car of the defendant Rolla Wells, Receiver of the United Railways Company of St. Louis, and…