Court Opinion

ID: 9766658
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:56:18.018203+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:24.497526
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CROW, Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the principal opinion, but not in its reference to Grippe v. Momtazee, 696 S.W.2d 797 (Mo. banc 1985). In Grippe, the trial court submitted the case to a jury, which found for the defendants. Judgment was correspondingly entered and the plaintiff appealed, assigning four trial errors. Grippe held that the plaintiff’s assignments of error should be addressed, and only after a favorable finding for the plaintiff on one or more of the assignments of error could the appellate court reach the issue whether the plaintiff had made a submissible case — a question inherent in deciding whether the error found by the appellate court merited reversal or remand for a new trial. Id. at 798 — 99[3].
In the instant case, the trial court held that the evidence did not support a finding that the plaintiff was damaged as a direct result of a negligent misrepresentation by the defendant. That finding was the basis for the judgment in favor of the defendant, and that finding is directly attacked by the plaintiff in its assignments of error. In these circumstances, Grippe does not come into play; consequently, there was no need to mention it.