McAllister v. St. Louis Merchants Bridge Terminal Railway Co.

Upon the original hearing of this cause on appeal, the judgment rendered in favor of respondent was affirmed, in accordance with an opinion prepared and filed by the Presiding Judge of this Division. Later, appellant's motion for a rehearing was sustained, and the cause was again submitted upon the original briefs, and upon a supplemental brief filed on behalf of respondent.

The vital question in the case, and the question uppermost in mind in granting a rehearing, was that of whether a submissible case was made in the showing of a causal connection between the existence of a defective car…