Stockton v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Between one and two o’clock in the afternoon of September 8, 1910, B. B. Stockton, an employee of defendant, was instantly killed by one of defendant’s cars. Within 'six months thereafter, the plaintiff, his widow, instituted this suit under section 5425, Revised Statutes 1909, to recover damages for his death.

The tragic affair occurred in defendant’s car barn at Thirty-first and Holmes streets, Kansas City, Missouri. On the floor of the barn were a number of parallel tracks running east and west upon which cars are run and stored when brought from the outside. Under one of these tracks was a…