James v. Kansas City Gas Co.

This is an action by plaintiff to recover damages for the death of her husband, caused, she alleges, by the negligence of the Bailey-Reynolds Chandelier Company and the Kansas City Gas Company. She brought her action against them jointly and recovered as against both a judgment for $10,000. Each of the defendants prosecuted a separate appeal: their appeals were consolidated here and heard as one cause. ¥e adopt respondent’s statement of the issues and facts, in part, as follows:

“On the 2d day of February, 1924, Claude O. James (plaintiff’s husband) . . . was walking along the sidewalk on the…