White v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Plaintiff’s action is for personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant’s servants. At the close of the evidence in her behalf the trial court, at defendant’s request, gave a peremptory instruction against her and she, in due time, appealed.

At the time of the accident plaintiff was sixty-one years old. and was living with her husband in a thickly populated part of Kansas City. It was in the midst of the winter season and the streets and sidewalks had for several davs been covered with a slick coating of sleet, *311making the walking difficult. Shortly after noon…