Neal v. Twelfth & Grand Avenue Building Co.

April 7, 1930, about three o’clock in the afternoon, plaintiff, an elderly woman past sixty years of age, together with a woman companion, was walking east along the sidewalk on the south side of 12th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, near a building eight stories high, in process of erection by defendant, at the southeast corner of 12th Street and Grand Avenue in said city. Defendant was not actually doing the work itself, but having it done by sub-contractors. The north wall of the building abutted upon the south edge of the sidewalk. The two women were walking east as above stated, and…