Unterlachner v. Wells
Decision Date | 24 May 1927 |
Docket Number | No. 29662.,29662. |
Citation | 296 S.W. 755 |
Parties | UNTERLACHIMER v. WELLS. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; H. A. Rosskopf, Judge.
Action by Alois Unterlachner against Rolla Wells, receiver of the United Railways Company of St. Louis. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed.
T. E. Francis and Ernest A. Green, both of St. Louis, for appellant.
Douglass & Inman, of St. Louis, for respondent.
This is a second appeal in this case. When first here (278 S. W. 79) the plaintiff appealed from a judgment against him. In that appeal, the only question was whether or not plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law. While there were four grounds of negligence charged against the defendant, the plaintiff submitted the case then, as he did in the second trial, upon a violation of the speed ordinance. On the first appeal we ruled (1) that the speed limit was 15 miles per hour, and that there was evidence upon which the jury could find that the street car was running much in excess of such speed limit, e., 30 miles per hour ; and (2) that the jury could well find that such excessive speed occasioned the injury to plaintiff. The issues were the same upon this trial as upon the previous one. Plaintiff submitted his case upon the single ground of " negligence stated, supra, and defendant, after having by instructions, withdrawn the other alleged grounds of negligence from the jury, pressed the alleged contributory negligence of the plaintiff, and in so doing say that the record evidence is different from that on the former trial. There is serious question as to whether or not defendant's instruction No. 9, withdrawing the humanitarian rule, would not have been error, had not plaintiff voluntarily abandoned that issue by failing to submit it by instruction. At the second trial involved in the record, now before us, the plaintiff had a verdict for $17,500 and judgment was entered for said sum, from which defendant has appealed. When the case was first in this court (Unterlachner v. Wells, 278 S. W. 79), there was little dispute about the facts. At that time we then stated the case (278 S. W. loc. cit. 80, 81):
We shall not overlook these additional suggestions in the course of the opinion. The appellant's statement is as follows:
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