Sang v. City of St. Louis

Suing for personal injuries and laying his damages at $15,000, plaintiff had a verdict for $4000. In due time defendant unsuccessfully moved for a new trial and appealed.

In outline the case is this: Plaintiff, twenty-seven years old, married and earning $15 per week, at half-*458past six p. m., October 3,1910, during a great rain and while it was “pitch dark,” was driving a one-horse beer wagon with a canopy top, on a paved street, P'alm, in St. Louis, for the purpose of delivering a barrel and a keg of beer. Palm intersects Glasgow, then either a dirt road or partly clay and partly macadam. This…