Price v. Seidler

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

This opinion is written on reassignment. The action is one for personal injuries in which plaintiff received a verdict for $24,-000. A motion for judgment or in the alternative for a new trial was overruled, and defendant has appealed. The facts are somewhat unusual and, since the principal contention is that plaintiff did not make a submissible case, we shall be required to state them in some detail.

Austin How was the owner and operator of National Brake Service, a service garage, at 309 S. 7th Street in St. Louis, and the plaintiff, Frank Price, was a mechanic who had…