COOPER v. FINKE

No. 49973.

376 S.W.2d 225 (1964)

Carl M. COOPER, a Minor, by His Next Friend, Barbara J. Cooper, His Mother, Appellant, v. Charles FINKE, d/b/a Finke Monument Works, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

Rehearing Denied and Opinion Modified March 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hungate & Grewach, William L. Hungate and P. J. Grewach, Troy, Niedner, Niedner & Moerschel, St. Charles, for appellant.

Alexander & Robertson, L. A. Robertson and Ernest E. Baker, St. Louis, B. Richards Creech, St. Charles, for respondent.


STORCKMAN, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment rendered in favor of the defendant in a personal injury action seeking damages in the sum of $50,000 on account of the alleged negligence of the defendant in the maintenance of a display of tombstones, monuments and grave markers in an open yard, one of which fell on the plaintiff and injured him. The plaintiff was fourteen years of age at the time he was injured; he sued by his mother as next friend...

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