Mount Olivet Baptist Church v. George

ELMO B. HUNTER, Special Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs in two actions brought in the Circuit Court of Jackson County and consolidated for trial and appeal. Each suit was for damages sustained by the particular plaintiff in the destruction by fire of his property. The Mount Olivet Baptist Church, plaintiff in cause No. 122,838 sued for damages in the sum of $20,000 for the total destruction of its church building located near Third and State Street in Kansas City, Kansas; and plaintiff George Parkins in cause No. 122,-839 sued for $32,500 for the total destruction of his machine…