Ellis v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Plaintiff brought this action for herself and on her husband’s behalf to recover damages for injuries which she sustained through the negligence of the defendant corporation ánd two of its street-car employees in Kansas City.

As plaintiff was alighting from defendant’s street car at a scheduled stopping place, the street car was suddenly started, which caused her to be thrown to the pavement and injured.

The severity of that injury was the main question in controversy in this lawsuit. In his opening statement to the jury counsel for the…