Featherstone ex rel. Curtin v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Co.

Plaintiff, a minor nine years of age, sues by her next friend to recover damages for personal injuries she alleges were caused by negligence of defendant. The answer is a general denial and a plea of contributory negligence. A trial in the circuit court resulted in a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $7500, but on the hearing of a motion for a new trial the court set aside this verdict and granted a new trial on the ground of error “in refusing to give instructions offered by defendant and in refusing to sustain defendant’s demurrer to the evidence offered at the close of all the evidence.”…