Case Name: W. S. Pemberton, Appellant, v. Adolph Buescher, Jr., Everett Peek and Ramah Irene Peek, Respondents
Court: Kansas City Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1942-11-02
Citations: 237 Mo. App. 251
Docket Number: 
Parties: W. S. Pemberton, Appellant, v. Adolph Buescher, Jr., Everett Peek and Ramah Irene Peek, Respondents.
Judges: Cave, J., concurs; Shain, P. J., dissents in a separate opinion.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 237
Pages: 251–253

Head Matter:
W. S. Pemberton, Appellant, v. Adolph Buescher, Jr., Everett Peek and Ramah Irene Peek, Respondents.
165 S. W. (2d) 707.
Kansas City Court of Appeals.
November 2, 1942.
Murrell & Murrell, Waldo Edwards and D. L. Dempsey for appellant.

Opinion:
BLAND, J.
This is an action for damages- for personal injuries growing out of a collision between two automobiles on a public highway in Macon county. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $1500. The court sustained defendants' motions for a new trial, and plaintiff has appealed.
There were seven separate grounds of error assigned in the motions for a new trial. However, the court failed to give any reason for sustaining the motions and plaintiff, thereafter, called the court's attention to its failure in this respect by filing a motion requesting the court to specify the particular grounds for sustaining the motions. This motion the court overruled.
It was the duty of the court to state the ground or grounds upon which it sustained the motions for a new trial (Section 1169, R. S. Mo. 1939; Stoner v. Royar, 200 Mo. 444), and, in view of its failure to do so, the burden is upon defendants to show prejudicial error, which would warrant a reversal on appeal if judgment had been entered on the verdict. [Dove et al. v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co., 163 S. W. (2d) 548.]
Defendants have failed to sustain this burden. In fact, they have filed no brief in this court.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to the trial eourt to reinstate the verdict and to enter judgment, as of the date of the verdict, in favor of the plaintiff thereon.
Cave, J., concurs; Shain, P. J., dissents in a separate opinion.