Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Kansas City Railways Co.

BLAND J.

This is a suit for damages to an automobile. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $404.96 and defendant has appealed.

The facts show that on April 13,1918, an automobile driven by one Steffey, who was in the general employment of the defendant as a chauffeur, collided with an automobile owned and being driven west by one J. Cohn on the north side of Fifteenth Street, a street running east and west in Kansas City, Missouri. At the time of the collision Steffey was driving at a high rate of speed on the north and wrong side of said street in an opposite direction…