Pagan v. City of Kennett

STONE, Judge.

While walking along a public sidewalk in the City of Kennett, Missouri, about 10 A.M. on June 23, 1964, plaintiff Madge Marie Pagan, then 64 years of age, fell by reason of (so she alleged) “an unsafe and dangerous condition ... in that there was a drop of at least approximately four inches between two levels of the surface” of the sidewalk. In this suit against the City of Kennett as defendant, she sought in Count I of plaintiffs’ first amended petition the sum of $10,000 for personal injuries, while in Count II of that petition her husband, plaintiff L. C. Pagan, sought $5,000…