Costello v. City of Kansas

This is an action for personal injuries.

The facts show that plaintiff was injured during the early morning of October 21, 1917, while traveling along a sidewalk on the west side of Bell Street between 36th and 37th streets in Kansas City, Missouri. The sidewalk was constructed of granitoid and at the point in question had a driveway running from the street into private property. The presence of this driveway on a grade below the sidewalk to the south occasioned an offset of about two and one-half inches starting at the outer edge of the sidewalk and growing less as it approached the property…