Drake Ex Rel. Imes v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while riding a motorcycle on a public street in Kansas City, Missouri. Plaintiff recovered judgment for $12,000 and defendant appealed. The accident occurred February 26, 1928. Plaintiff, Harold Drake, was then about seventeen years old. He was riding on a motorcycle seated behind one Norman Brown who was driving the machine. His evidence tended to show that the motorcycle was proceeding northward on Summit Street between the tracks of defendant's double track street railway when it ran into a hole in the pavement, causing…