Smith v. United Rys. Co.
Citation | 227 S.W. 866 |
Decision Date | 08 February 1921 |
Docket Number | No. 16404.,16404. |
Parties | SMITH v. UNITED RYS. CO. OF ST. LOUIS. |
Court | Court of Appeal of Missouri (US) |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; Samuel Rosenfeld, Judge.
"Not to be officially published."
Action by Edward Smith against the United Railways Company of St. Louis. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed, and cause remanded.
Charles W. Bates and T. E. Francis, both of St. Louis, for appellant.
J. M. Feigenbaum, of St. Louis, for respondent.
This is a suit for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff while a passenger on one of the defendant's street cars. Plaintiff obtained judgment for $3,000, and defendant appeals.
I. It is here urged that the learned trial court committed prejudicial error in admitting, over proper objection, testimony, relative to special damages, not pleaded. This point is well taken.
Here again the record shows that counsel for respondent moved to strike out the answer on the ground that no injury of that kind was pleaded in the petition, but was again overruled, and an exception saved. The witness thereupon proceeded as though in answer to the last question, and said:
Again defendant's motion to strike out was overruled and an exception noted.
This witness further testified, after examining his office record, that when plaintiff came to him complaining of his "abdominal wrong," it was three weeks after the witness had first treated plaintiff for an infected...
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