Clayton v. St. Louis Public Service Company

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an action for damages brought by Mary Clayton against St. Louis Public Service Company as a result of injuries sustained by her while a passenger on one of defendant’s streetcars. A trial jury returned a verdict for $6,250 for plaintiff. The carrier has appealed from the judgment of the circuit court entered upon the verdict, claiming that the trial court erred in failing to declare a mistrial for improper cross-examination and improper argument on the part of plaintiff’s counsel with reference to the subject of insurance, and in ruling that plaintiff’s doctor’s…