Blanford v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

CONKLING, Chief Justice.

The St. Louis Public Service Company, defendant below, has appealed from a judgment entered after the trial court sustained plaintiff’s, Cecil E. Blanford’s, motion for new trial in an action wherein the jury had returned a verdict for defendant. The action was one praying damages of $11,364, wherein plaintiff sought recovery for alleged loss of services of his then wife, Mary Blanford, alleged to have resulted from injuries claimed to have been sustained by her on July 9, 1945, while she was attempting to alight from one of defendant’s buses in the City of St. Louis.

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