Kansas City v. Mullins

— Plaintiff’s action was instituted to recover the amount it paid in settlement of a judgment rendered against it in favor of one Susie Hutchinson. Susie Hutchinson h’ad sustained personal injuries *640by falling over sewer pipe left upon one of plaintiff’s sidewalks claimed by the city to have been placed there by defendant Mullins, a contractor with plaintiff city for putting in the sewer. She brought suit against the city and this defendant Mullins, charging them both with negligence. She afterwards filed an amended petition again charging negligence against both. Thereafter she filed a second…