Legal Opinion
Hewitt v. City of Kansas City
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided October 25, 1988No. WD 40056PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOWENSTEIN, Judge.
The plaintiffs appeal from a jury verdict and judgment for the City of Kansas City in a wrongful death claim arising out of a two-car, head-on accident on Stark Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The plaintiffs are the surviving parents of two teenage boys who died as a result of the accident. In this suit they claimed the accident was caused by the dangerous condition of a city road, Stark Avenue. Kansas City controls and maintains the street and right of way where the accident occurred. The speed limit on Stark is 25 miles an hour. It is a rural, two-lane paved road. It is…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Long v. MildSupreme Court of Missouri · 1941
- Benjamin v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- Vaeth Ex Rel. Vaeth v. GeggSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972
- Housman v. FiddymentSupreme Court of Missouri · 1967
- Lee v. MirbahaSupreme Court of Missouri · 1986
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Barlett Ex Rel. Barlett v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1993
- Hacker v. Quinn Concrete Co., Inc.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1993
- In Re the Care & Treatment of CokesMissouri Court of Appeals · 2003
- STATE EX REL. SASNETT v. MoorhouseMissouri Court of Appeals · 2008
- State v. GoemanMissouri Court of Appeals · 2012
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