HORREIL v. St. Louis Public Service Company

COIL, Commissioner.

St. Louis Public Service Company (herein called defendant) has appealed from respondent’s $15,000 judgment for personal injuries.- Defendant contends that the trial court erred: in giving instruction 1; in the admission and exclusion of evidence; in refusing to declare a mistrial because of an allegedly prejudicial statement by plaintiff; and in refusing to strike allegedly prejudicial comments of the ttial court. Defendant also contends that the judgment is grossly excessive. For the reasons stated herein, the judgment should be affirmed.

The evidence was such that a jury…