Pearson v. Kansas City

This is an action (filed July 21, 1926) for damages for personal injuries resulting from a fall into an elevator shaft. Respondent was a matron at Police Station No. 4 in Kansas City. This police station property was purchased by the city and the title conveyed to it through the exercise of an option to purchase in a lease made by the Kansas City Police Board. After this purchase, the city made extensive improvements there with the proceeds of a bond issue for police and municipal court purposes. It was a two-story building, the first floor of which was used entirely for police purposes, with…