Van Houten v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

— This is an action for $20,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, a passenger on the defendant’s street car, by reason of the carelessness and negligence of the defendant. The action originated and was tried in the Circuit Court of Jackson County at Kansas City, where judgment was rendered December 16, 1936, at the November, 1936, term of court.

The petition alleges that the plaintiff, on February 27, 1935, was a passenger on one of the defendant’s Holmes Street street cars going in a south-bound direction and that, when said street car reached…