Ielouch v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission

SPINDEN, Judge.

Janis and Ayman Ieloueh sued the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission for damages arising from a 1992 automobile crash on Mo. 7 near Warsaw. They contended that a hillcrest obscured motorists’ vision of a school entrance and made the highway unsafe. They asserted that the commission had a duty to remedy the danger or to warn motorists of it. A jury returned a verdict for the commission, and the Ielouches appeal.

They assert that the circuit court erred in giving the commission’s affirmative defense instruction and in excluding a memorandum regarding a Department of…