Arata v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Plaintiff was injured by one of •defendant’s street cars striking ber as she was crossing one of the streets in Kansas City. She brought this action for damages and recovered judgment in the trial court.

The action is founded on the humanitarian rule. The petition charges specific negligence in failing, after seeing plaintiff’s peril, to stop the car, or to slow it down, and thereby avoid injuring her. There was sufficient evidence tending to support the charge to permit the question being submitted to the jury, and we think defendant’s demurrer was properly overruled.

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