Grove v. City of Kansas

Ray, J

The petition in this case was as follows, to-wit:: Flaintiff .states that defendant is and was, at the dates. *673hereinafter mentioned, a municipal corporation, duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Missouri; that on the 3rd day of February, 1877, while plaintiff was carefully passing on and along the sidewalk on the east side of Main street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, in defendant’s corporate limits, she was thrown upon said sidewalk and into a cellar underneath the same, by reason of the dangerous, unsafe and insecure condition of the trapdoor in said sidewalk; that…