Legal Opinion

Brown v. Payne

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided January 11, 1954No. 43401PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARRETT, Commissioner.

In this action against Fred S. Payne for actual and punitive damages a jury awarded Mrs. Opal Brown $10,000 actual 'damages as compensation for her personal injuries.

The circumstances giving rise to the .action were that between six and six-thirty • o’clock on June 1, 1951, .Mrs. Brown, with her husband as a passenger, was driving a pickup truck east on blacktop Highway .35 about one mile from Clinton. Mrs. Brown intended to turn left off of the highway onto an intersecting gravel road. It was a clear day, the sun was shining .and, while the road was heavily traveled,…

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2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Buckley v. KnappSupreme Court of Missouri · 1871
  2. Schumacher v. LeslieSupreme Court of Missouri · 1950
  3. Schumacher v. LeslieSupreme Court of Missouri · 1950
  4. Nichols v. BresnahanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1948
  5. Greenwood v. BRIDGEWAYSMissouri Court of Appeals · 1951

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Beggs v. Universal CIT Credit CorporationSupreme Court of Missouri · 1966
  2. Chappell v. City of SpringfieldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1968
  3. State ex rel. Boswell v. CurtisMissouri Court of Appeals · 1960
  4. Denney v. Spot Martin, Inc.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1959
  5. Parlow v. Carson-Union-May-Stern CompanySupreme Court of Missouri · 1958

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