Thaller v. Skinner & Kennedy Co.

WOLFE, Presiding Judge.

This is an action for damages arising out of personal injuries alleged to have-been sustained by reason of a collision between defendant’s truck and plaintiff’s automobile. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,500. The court sustained the defendant’s motion for a new trial, and the plaintiff has appealed.

Mrs. Jackie Thaller, the plaintiff, was driving a Pontiac automobile in an east-wardly direction on Market Street, in the City of St. Louis, on December 8, 1954. It was shortly after 4:00 p.m. A misting rain was starting to fall, and it…