SMITH v. BENNETT

No. 9045.

472 S.W.2d 623 (1971)

Ethel SMITH and Ethel Jean Smith, by her next friend, Ethel Smith, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Henry R. BENNETT, Defendant, Allstate Insurance Company, a corporation, Garnishee-Appellant.

Springfield Court of Appeals, Missouri.

October 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jackson, Thomasson, Dickerson & Gilbert, Paul V. Gilbert, Cape Girardeau, for garnishee-appellant.

Kenneth L. Dement, Sikeston, for plaintiffs-respondents.


STONE, Judge.

In their two-count suit for damages allegedly resulting from an intersectional vehicular collision in Sikeston, Missouri, on November 17, 1969, plaintiffs Ethel Smith and Ethel Jean Smith, her daughter, obtained on February 26, 1970, default judgments in the aggregate sum of $15,000 against defendant Henry R. Bennett. (All emphasis herein is ours.) On May 14, 1970, a default judgment in the same aggregate sum was entered against garnishee Allstate...

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