Langhammer v. CITY OF MEXICO, MISSOURI

BARRETT, Commissioner.

In this action by Genevieve Langhammer to recover $10,250 damages from the City of Mexico a jury found the issue of negligent injury in favor of the plaintiff and fixed her damages at $4,000. The trial court overruled the city’s motions for judgment but sustained its motion for a new trial on the specified ground that the court had erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction three as to the measure of damages. Since the court was of the view, apparently, that there had been no errors or unfairness as to the essential merits of the case, the court ordered a new trial on the…