WEIR v. BRUNE

No. 43139.

256 S.W.2d 810 (1953)

WEIR et al. v. BRUNE et al.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Raymond Dyer and Alexander M. Goodman, St. Louis, for appellants.

J. E. Sigoloff and Charles S. Sigoloff, St. Louis, for respondents.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

This reassigned appeal is an action for damages on behalf of two minors. The petition is in three separate counts and seeks actual and punitive damages against the owners and lessors of a "tenement" for personal injuries sustained when the children were bitten by a rat. The first count is based, primarily, upon the violation of an ordinance of the City of St. Louis, known as the "rat ordinance." ...

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