Cummins v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

This is an action for damage for wrongful death. Plaintiffs are the three minor children of Archie C. Cummins, who was killed when a street car belonging to defendant Kansas City Public Service Company collided with a bus. The deceased was a passenger on the bus, which was owned by defendants Brown, copartners, in the business of operating automobile busses for carriage of passengers for hire under the name of Brown Brothers Bus Company. Plaintiffs' amended petition alleged that their father was killed on September 3, 1928; that at that time the wife of deceased, mother of plaintiffs, was…