Bronson v. Kansas City

HUNTER, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant, the City of Kansas City, from a $2,500 judgment in favor of plaintiff, Arthur Bronson, Jr., II, a minor in a suit brought by his mother and next friend, Helen O. Bronson. Plaintiff, 4Y2 years old, was burned by a flare pot placed by the City to warn of an excavation in the public sidewalk in front of plaintiff’s home. The only point raised by defendant City on this appeal Is that the trial court erred in overruling its motion for a directed verdict at the close"’ of plaintiff’s evidence and at the close of all the evidence for the reason that the…