Court Opinion

ID: 9857348
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 14:30:56.118959+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:28.775513
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On Motion for Rehearing and Transfer.
McDOWELL, Presiding Judge.
Respondent’s motion for rehearing or in the alternative to transfer the above cause to the Supreme Court is by this court denied.
The motion complains that this court erred in holding that the proper method of showing damages to immature crops was not followed. Since our opinion has been handed down, the Kansas City Court of Appeals passed directly upon this question in Beaty v. N. W. Electric Power Cooperative, Mo.App., 296 S.W.2d 921.
The court, in its opinion, specifically held that the method of proving damages to immature crops, as stated by us in the instant case, must be followed.
Respondent further contends that the opinion should be modified so as to limit the retrial to the issue of damages only.
To support this contention Hufft v. Kuhn, Mo.Sup., 277 S.W.2d 552, 555, and Section 512.160 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. are cited.
Following the law as declared by the Supreme Court and as provided in the statute cited, we have examined the record of the trial in the instant case and find that there are so many errors committed in the introduction of testimony and by the rulings of the trial court that the cause was not properly and fairly tried, both as to liability and as to damages, and, for that reason, we ordered a retrial of said cause. The verdict in this case was a nine man jury verdict, showing that the issue of liability was questionable. Among the errors committed by the trial court were that he permitted respondent’s witnesses, without proper qualification, to testify as to the cause of the damage, if any, which was an invasion of the province of the jury. He, likewise, unduly restricted cross-examination of respondent’s witnesses by appellant to-show their interest.
STONE and RUARK, JJ., concur.