Scanlon v. Kansas City

FRANK C. J.

This ease was reassigned to the writer on April 17, 1935. It is an action by Edward Scanlon against Kansas City to recover damages for the loss of services of his infant son, Cornelius Scanlon, and for care, nursing and medical and surgical treatment occasioned by an injury caused by a fall on a defective sidewalk on August 8, 1900, when the son was two years and five months old. The history of the litigation following the son’s injury is stated in respondent’s brief substantially as follows:

“On December 20, 1900, two suits were filed, one on behalf of the boy for his injuries by…