MORRIS v. KLEIN

No. 32231.

400 S.W.2d 461 (1966)

Kevin Kennard MORRIS, an Infant, by Ira Lee Morris, His Next Friend, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Roy T. KLEIN, Defendant-Appellant.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

February 15, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Douglas O'Leary and Morris E. Stokes, Moser, Marsalek, Carpenter, Cleary & Jaeckel, St. Louis, for appellant.

Leo M. Newman, Goldenhersh, Gallagher, Fredericks & Newman, St. Louis, for respondent.


CLEMENS, Commissioner.

The issue here is the propriety of having given defendant's modified MAI converse instruction. The jury found for the defendant, but the trial court granted the plaintiff a new trial on the ground that it had erred in giving the defendant's converse instruction. Now, the defendant has appealed, contending that his converse instruction was properly given. Our decision depends on the answers to two...

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