Walls ex rel. Walls v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

This was an action for damages for injuries sustained by an eight-year-old boy when he was hit by a truck. Plaintiff prevailed and the defendants appeal.

The accident took place on the afternoon of January 23, 1937, on Second street between St. Francis and Emporia avenues, in Wichita. A snow had fallen a day or two before and had been scraped into the center of the street, making a ridge several feet wide at the base and one or two feet high. The street was icy, slippery or slushy. Second street is forty feet wide, and cars were parked parallel…