A Boone County jury rejected the injury claim of a couple badly hurt in a 2005 highway crash between a motorcycle and pickup truck towing a trailer. The jury also rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that the driver of the pickup ...
Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision
Read More »Clarion Mortgage Capital received a defense verdict in a mortgage fraud case brought against the company by a Kansas City woman. The case is fifth in a series of nine similar claims recently brought against the company. Margaret Stanley applied ...
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Read More »A judge in Texas County refused to enforce a real estate sales contract based on claims that the elderly seller was unduly influenced to sell a 1,200-acre farm below market value. Glendora Martin, a disabled and widowed 81-year-old woman who ...
Tagged with: Real estate contract
Read More »A jury sided with the defendant driver in a trial over a January 2003 parking lot collision at a Columbia Schnucks grocery store. Ken Derendinger sued retiree Eleanor Owen Teague in Boone County Circuit Court, claiming she drove the wrong ...
Read More »A Springfield attorney who represented himself at trial received a $50,000 verdict after a business contact failed to deliver on a promised finder’s fee. Joseph Sheppard III made an oral agreement with Ron Layher that he would receive 1 percent ...
Tagged with: breach of contract
Read More »I always appreciate it when a reader takes time to respond. This past week I received an e-mail from a reader who commented on my last column about a medical malpractice plaintiff who had a hard time finding a lawyer ...
Tagged with: medical malpractice
Read More »A St. Louis man who tumbled from a golf cart at a Maryville University alumni event won a $150,000 jury verdict against the university. The man, Leonard DeMoor, settled with the institution for $145,000 two weeks after trial, said Morry ...
Tagged with: personal injury
Read More »A St. Louis County judge awarded $121,000 in damages to a man who was beaten outside a Ferguson bar in 2008. The award for Jason Kellenberger includes $25,000 in punitive damages for an incident where a bar patron hit Kellenberger ...
Read More »A jury in Cooper County awarded $287,921 to a student who fell and injured her knee in a community college classroom. Stephanie Finnell, 43, was a part-time student taking a night class at State Fair Community College in Sedalia. The ...
Tagged with: premises liability
Read More »A federal judge awarded the bankrupt President Casinos Inc. more than $42 million for breach of contract and tort claims the company filed against Columbia Sussex Corp., which backed out of a deal to buy the aging riverboat casino for ...
Read More »A woman who sued her plumber after her house caught fire amid a bathroom construction project won $100,000 after a bench trial in St. Louis. Addie Carter sued Timothy Booker along with Edgar Austin, through his company Austin Plumbing, in ...
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