Melvin v. Cater

WILLIAMS, C.

This is an action for personal injury. Plaintiff claims, and the jury found, that while stepping from an automobile in the city of St. Joseph, Missouri, plaintiff was injured. A contractor was engaged in erecting new standards for street lights. The city of St. Joseph had made a contract with the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company to take down electric standards in the retail district and replace them. The St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company sublet this contract to Harry Cater. The plaintiff sued the city, the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power…