Davis v. City of Independence

EAGER, Judge.

This case was transferred from the Kansas City Court of Appeals by order of this court. It is therefore here as though upon an original appeal; it involves injuries from a fall on a public sidewalk in Independence. The Court of Appeals reversed a judgment for plaintiff in the amount of $6,000 and remanded the case, solely on account of statements made in the argument of plaintiff’s counsel which it held to be improper. No point is made by defendant of the sufficiency of the evidence for submission.

On July 17, 1962, at about 2:30 p. m., a clear, hot day, plaintiff was walking east…