Ervin v. Coleman

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

■As defendant drove his automobile westward on Commercial Street in Lebanon, Missouri, the night of June 1, 1968, it ran into the rear of plaintiffs’ car which was parked on the north side of the thoroughfare. Defendant has appealed from the judgment that the Circuit Court of Lac-lede County entered on a verdict awarding plaintiffs actual automobile damages in the sum of $1,700 and punitive damages in the amount of $1,350.

Heedless of Civil Rules 55.06 and 55.12, V.A.M.R. (§§ 509.050 and 509.110, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S.), plaintiffs’ one-count petition confused and…