Koock v. Fletcher Construction Co.

PATTERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County in the sum of $3,000. Victor B. Koock, the plaintiff below and recipient of the judgment, appeals therefrom, assigning as error that the verdict was so grossly inadequate as to show bias and prejudice on the part of the jury.

On March 1, 1968, the plaintiff and his wife were involved in an automobile collision with another vehicle which was operated by Boyd Ray Ford, an employee of Fletcher Construction Company. The uncontroverted facts indicated that as the defendant Ford was traveling west in the city…