Smith v. Creve Coeur Drayage and Motor-Bus Co.

— Plaintiff below recovered judgment for $4,000 against -the defendant in an action for damages for injuries sustained by reason of a motorbus of the defendant company, in which plaintiff was riding as a passenger, running off of the highway and colliding with a pole. ' ■ ■

The petition alleges general negligence. The answer was a general denial.

It appears that the plaintiff went to the jury upon an instruction based upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur 'whereby the jury were told that if they believed from the evidence that1 a motorbus of the defendant on which plaintiff was a passenger was…