Lewis Ex Rel. Piening v. Zagata

Action for $15,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on account of the negligence of defendant taxicab owner, when the taxicab, in which plaintiff was riding as a fare paying passenger, collided head-on with another motor vehicle traveling in the opposite direction upon the highway. The jury returned a verdict for defendant. Plaintiff has appealed and complains of four instructions read to the jury at the request of the defendant.

Plaintiff was employed as a waitress at a hotel in Rolla. On March 10, 1941, she left the hotel about 10 P.M. and went to defendant's…