Edelen v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

WOLFE, Commissioner..This is an action for damages arising out "of personal injuries which the plaintiff is alleged to have suffered by reason of being struck by a bus operated by the defendant. The trial resulted in a verdict for the defendant and thereafter the court sustained the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. ' From the order granting a new trial the defendant has appealed.

The petition alleges that the plaintiff was struck by one of the defendant’s buses while walking in the traveled portion of the Wellston loop in St. Louis County. There follow four counts ‘of primary negligence…