Stephenson v. W. R. Grimshaw Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is a rehearing. (Stephenson v. W. R. Grimshaw Co., 147 Kan. 532, 77 P. 2d 981.)

The facts of the case and of its disposition in the district court are narrated at length in our first opinion, and a brief summary thereof will suffice for its present disposition.

Plaintiff charged that defendant, through one J. L. Bridges, its agent and foreman, had negligently placed a plank across a sidewalk in Pittsburg near the place where defendant was doing some excavation work for the erection of a building. She alleged that she tripped over the…