Cheatham v. Chartrau

For convenience respondent will be referred to as plaintiff and appellant as defendant throughout this opinion.

This is an action wherein plaintiff seeks to recover damages in the amount of $10,000 for personal injuries received in an automobile collision. The suit was tided-at the May Term, 1943, of the Circuit Court of New Madrid County, resulting in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, for the sum of $5000, from which judgment defendant has duly appealed.

There seems to be no controversy over the pleadings; the petition is in conventional form; the amended answer is a general denial coupled…