Davis v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

*173ELLISON, J.

[ 671] On the defendant-respondent’s application, this court ordered this cause transferred here from the Kansas City Court of Appeals. „ The opinion of that court is reported in 223 SW. (2d) 1. The plaintiff-appellant sued the respondent for personal injuries and property damage sustained in a collision in Kansas City between one of respondent’s streetcars and his own automobile, and recovered a verdict for $5500. His cause was submitted to the jury under the humanitarian doctrine.

At the close of appellant’s case and again at the close of the whole case respondent moved for a…