Stimage ex rel. Stimage v. Union Electric Co.

SMITH, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of $10,000 in favor of plaintiff in accord with the jury’s verdict in a child dart-out accident. Defendant’s attack on the judgment presents essentially two grounds: sufficiency of the evidence and excessiveness of the verdict.

In September, 1968, plaintiff Alicia Stim-age, then almost six years old, ran across Short St. Louis street in the city of St. Louis and was struck by defendant’s truck, operated by its employee, Victor J. Re-cupero, while acting in the course of his employment. Short St. Louis street is one leg of a triangle formed…