Brock Ex Rel. Lakas v. Steward

KELLY, Judge.

Appellant, the defendant in the trial court, brought this appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County granting the respondents, the plaintiffs in the trial court, a new trial following a jury verdict in behalf of the appellant and against the respondents. This litigation has its genesis in a pedestrian-automobile collision. Respondents, a 13-year old female child and her mother, filed their petition in two Counts. In Count I recovery was sought for personal injuries sustained by the child and in Count II the mother as the natural guardian of the child sought…