(DOWNLOAD) "Regina Leavitt v. St. Louis Public Service" by St. Louis District Missouri Court of Appeals ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Regina Leavitt v. St. Louis Public Service
- Author : St. Louis District Missouri Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 15, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
Description
Plaintiff Regina Leavitt brought this action for damages for personal injuries claimed to have occurred when the rear doors
of defendant's motorbus, on which she was a passenger, were closed on her as she was in the act of alighting, causing her
to fall to the street. Verdict and judgment was for $7,000 and defendant appealed. Defendant attacks the judgment on numerous grounds: (1) that plaintiff's testimony as to the manner in which the accident
occurred was contrary to physical possiblity, and therefore should not have been accepted as substantial evidence, entitling
her to go to the jury; (2) that prejudicial error was committed in giving plaintiff's instruction number one; (3) that the
trial court erred in overruling defendant's challenges for cause to two veniremen; (4) that its motion for a mistrial should
have been sustained when plaintiff injected the subject of insurance into the case; (5) that there was no evidence that plaintiff
had sustained any permanent injury, and hence that plaintiff's instruction on damages was prejudicially erroneous in submitting
that element of damage; and (6) that the verdict and judgment is excessive. These challenges will be considered seriatim.