Kirkham v. City of Kansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff sued the city for loss of his wife’s services occasioned by an injury received by falling upon a sidewalk along Seventeenth street. A tent meeting was being held a short distance west of the street, and returning from services there on the evening in question the plaintiff’s wife, in coming from the street line across the parking to the sidewalk, which was twelve to eighteen inches lower than the parking, fell thereon and was injured. The plaintiff recovered and the city appeals and presents the question whether the city owed any…