Brown v. Greene County

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Cheryl Brown brought this action seeking money damages from defendant Greene County, Missouri, for injuries she sustained when a motorcycle on which she was a passenger collided with a fallen tree limb lying across a rural road within defendant’s territorial confines. The case was tried to a jury which returned a verdict in favor of defendant. Thereafter, plaintiff filed a motion for new trial which the trial court sustained on the basis of what it deemed instructional error. From this grant of a new trial defendant has appealed.

Defendant in its brief proper…