CAPRA v. PHILLIPS INVESTMENT COMPANY

No. 44784.

302 S.W.2d 924 (1957)

Joe CAPRA, Frank Accurso, Sam Accurso and Jack Accurso, Respondents, v. PHILLIPS INVESTMENT COMPANY, a Corporation, and Hotel Phillips, Inc., a Corporation, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri. En Banc.

June 10, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Thomson, Clem W. Fairchild, Al Lebrecht, Kansas City, Davis, Thomson, VanDyke & Fairchild, Kansas City, of counsel, for plaintiffs-respondents.

Harry L. Jacobs, Robert J. Coleman, Kansas City, for appellant, Phillips Inv. Co.

Clyde J. Linde, Robert J. Coleman, Robert B. Langworthy, Billy S. Sparks, Kansas City, Langworthy, Matz & Linde, Ringolsky & Jacobs, Kansas City, of counsel, for appellant, Hotel Phillips, Inc.


BOHLING, Commissioner.

Joe Capra, Frank Accurso, Sam Accurso and Jack Accurso, plaintiffs, recovered a judgment on a nine-juror verdict for $48,000 against Phillips Investment Company and Hotel Phillips, Inc., corporate defendants, sometimes herein referred to as Investment company and the Hotel, respectively, for the destruction by fire on the morning of December 14, 1952, of a restaurant and tavern, known as the Ringside...

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