Bridges Ex Rel. Bridges v. Arkansas-Missouri Power Co.

STONE, Presiding Judge.

For personal injuries from electrical burns and shock sustained during the early afternoon of Friday, October 16, 1964, at Kennett, Missouri, plaintiff Earl Bland Bridges, who was sixteen years and eleven months of age at the time of accident, had judgment for $15,000 upon a unanimous jury verdict. On the after-trial motion of defendant, Arkansas-Missouri Power Company [V.A.M.R. Rule 72.02; V.A.M.S. § 510.290], the trial court set aside the judgment for plaintiff and entered judgment for defendant on the stated ground that “plaintiff was guilty of contributory…