Thorne v. Thorne

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

The present suit is one for personal injuries. The trial court entered judgment in favor of plaintiff and against both defendants for $31,750 “for personal injuries” and $1,000 “as property damage,” upon the purported verdict of a jury. The legal sufficiency of that verdict is the principal question raised here. A very brief statement of the facts will suffice.

Plaintiff, accompanied by a passenger, was driving his Ford pickup truck west along the north half of Guinotte Avenue in Kansas City at about 4:45 on the afternoon of April 9, 1959; he had slowed almost to a stop,…