State Ex Rel. St. Louis Public Service Co. v. Becker

This is an original proceeding in certiorari. The relator, St. Louis Public Service Company, seeks to have the opinion of the St. Louis Court of Appeals in the case of Berryman v. People's Motorbus Company of St. Louis and St. Louis Public Service Company (Mo. App.), 54 S.W.2d 747, quashed, alleging same to be in conflict with certain prior, controlling decisions of this court. The plaintiff in that case, James Berryman, claimed to have sustained bodily injuries when struck by a motorbus, owned and operated upon the streets of the city of St. Louis by the motorbus company, which "knocked him…