McCray v. Missouri-Kansas & Texas Railroad

This is a suit in which the sum of $25,000 is asked as damages on account of personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, appellant, and alleged to be the result of defendant's negligence. In its general outline, plaintiff's claim is, that on the night of July 25, 1923, he was walking east on Grand Avenue, a public street extending east and west, in the city of Parsons, Kansas, crossed from north to south by several tracks of defendant's railway; that in walking over the fifth track, from the west, his left foot caught against a raised plank inside the east rail of said fifth track, causing him…