Legal Opinion

Bowden v. City of Kansas City

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided July 7, 1904No. 13,366PublishedCited by 27 opinions

Error from Wyandotte court of common pleas; William G. Holt, judge.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J. :

The plaintiff prosecutes error from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to his petition. The material facts alleged in the petition, which present *588the question discussed in this opinion, briefly summarized, are that the defendant, a city of the first class, maintains a fire department and fire stations; that plaintiff was in charge of station No. 3, in which were kept a hose-cart and horses for drawing it; that it was his duty to clasp the collar on the horses when they dashed from their stalls to the tongue of the hose-cart upon the alarm of…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Johnston v. District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Barton v. . the City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
  3. Donahoe v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  4. Thurston v. City of St. JosephSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
  5. McClure v. City of Red WingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1881

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Jackson v. City of Kansas CitySupreme Court of Kansas · 1984
  2. Chafor v. City of Long BeachCalifornia Supreme Court · 1917
  3. Harper v. City of TopekaSupreme Court of Kansas · 1914
  4. Oklahoma City v. FosterSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1926
  5. Rollow v. Ogden CityUtah Supreme Court · 1926

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