Robbins v. Brown-Strauss Corp.

VAN OSDOL, C.

This is an action for $25,000 damages for personal injuries sustained in a motor-vehicular collision at the intersection of Sixteenth Street and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City. The collision was between an automobile belonging to the police department of Kansas City, which police car was being driven westwardly on Sixteenth Street, and a Chevrolet “pickup” truek owned by defendant, Brown-Strauss Corporation, driven southwardly on Prospect Avenue by defendant’s employee. The jury returned a verdict for defendant; but the trial court sustained plaintiff’s motion for a new trial,…