LINDNER v. SAWYER

No. 50682.

388 S.W.2d 896 (1965)

L. J. LINDNER and Mrs. L. J. Lindner, Appellants, v. Earl SAWYER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

April 12, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Keusenkothen, and R. P. Smith, Cape Girardeau, for appellants.

Finch, Finch, Knehans & Cochrane, Jack O. Knehans, Cape Girardeau, for respondent.


STOCKARD, Commissioner.

In plaintiffs' suit for $25,000 damages for the wrongful death of their minor son the jury verdict was for defendant and plaintiffs have appealed.

On June 11, 1963, Michael Lindner, then three days less than nine years of age was playing with his sister in the yard of his home when Mr. Harry Thompson, Jr., a rural mail carrier, stopped at the mailbox across the road. Michael went to the edge of the road and waited for an automobile...

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