WILSON v. SHUMATE

No. 45337.

296 S.W.2d 72 (1956)

Patricia WILSON, by Kathryn Wilson, her next friend, Appellant, v. Charles R. SHUMATE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

December 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles T. Bloodworth, Jr., Poplar Bluff, Briney & Welborn, Bloomfield, for appellants.

Hyde & Purcell, George R. Wilhoit, Jr., Poplar Bluff, for respondent.


COIL, Commissioner.

Patricia Wilson, by her next friend, recovered a verdict and judgment for $15,000 in her damage action for personal injuries allegedly resulting from defendant's negligence. The trial court sustained defendant's after-trial motion to set aside plaintiff's judgment and enter judgment for defendant on the grounds that plaintiff failed to make a submissible case and that plaintiff was contributorily negligent as a matter of law; and alternatively...

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