Statler v. St. Louis Public Service Company

MATTHES, Judge.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while she was a passenger on the defendant’s Cass Avenue bus, in the City of St. Louis, Missouri. The case was submitted under the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. From the judgment for $3,500 entered on the jury verdict defendant has appealed. Defendant contends that prejudicial error was committed in giving instruction No. 5 and in refusing instruction “A”. It is also asserted that the verdict is grossly excessive.

On the morning of August 29, 1954, plaintiff boarded one of the defendant’s eastbound buses at…