Feely v. City of St. Louis

DOWD, Judge.

City of St. Louis (City), Defendant, appeals the trial court’s denial of its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict after the jury returned a verdict in favor of Kevin V. Feely, et al., Plaintiffs. We affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence presented at trial was as follows: Brendan Feely, Plaintiffs’ six-year-old son, was attending a summer camp program sponsored by the City in Carondelet Park, a park owned and maintained by the City. On the afternoon of June 19, 1990, Jane Godfrey went to the park to pick up Brendan and another child. She…