Moe v. Blue Springs Truck Lines, Inc.

LAURANCE M. HYDE, Special Commissioner.

Action for $25,000.00 damages for personal injuries sustained when defendant’s truck struck the rear of plaintiff’s car. Verdict and judgment for defendants and plaintiff has appealed.

The only issue here is whether it was prejudicial error for the court to refuse to admit in rebuttal the record of the defendant truck driver’s conviction in the magistrate court of Jackson County on a plea of guilty to a charge of unlawfully operating a motor vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner.

Plaintiff was driving a Mercury automobile. The truck driver…