Jones v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

This was an action to recover damages for wrongful death. The defendants were a track driver, his employers, and a streetcar company. The streetcar company demurred to the petition on the ground that it did not state a cause of action against it. The demurrer was sustained and from that order the plaintiffs appealed.

Appellants, Ira Jones and Alma Jones, his wife, residents of Kansas City, Kan., alleged that their son, Billy Wayne Jones, a boy nine years old, was killed as the result of joint and concurring acts of negligence of a truck driver…