Court Opinion

ID: 9668967
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:34:35.418609+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:50.729762
License: Public Domain

STORCKMAN, Judge
(concurring).
In concurring I wish to point out additional authority criticizing “lack of control” as a proper assignment of specific negligence in the operation of an automobile. May v. Bradford, Mo., 348 S.W.2d 133, calls it an “abstract submission” and cites Rosenfeld v. Peters, Mo., 327 S.W.2d 264, 269[7, 8], wherein it is said such a submission “at least was confusing and could be construed as a roving commission.” It has been termed a submission of general negligence which gives the widest kind of roving commission. Highfill v. Brown, Mo., 340 S.W.2d 656, 663 [9]; McCarthy v. Sebben, Mo., 331 S.W.2d 601, 606. See also Kimmich v. Berry, Mo., 319 S.W.2d 546, 547-548; Vogelgesang v. Waelder, Mo. App., 238 S.W.2d 849, 856[8]; and State ex rel. Burger v. Trimble, 331 Mo. 748, 55 S.W.2d 422, 423[2].
The Bar should be acquainted with the hazard which the continued use of this submission presents.