Williams v. Kansas City Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action for personal injury. The judgment in the trial court was for the plaintiff.

It appears that plaintiff was driving a large wagon drawn by two horses on one of the streets of Kansas City, Kansas, running east and west, and that defendant’s street car line ran along one of the streets north and south. There were three acts of negligence charged in the petition. The two first were abandoned by plaintiff and the cause was submitted to the jury on the third. That was, in effect, a concession of plaintiff’s negligence, but stated facts which bring the case under what is known as the…