Grubb Ex Rel. Grubb v. Kansas City Railways Co.

Pláintiff, a girl nine years of age, accompanied by relatives, and desiring to return from Fairmount Park to Kansas City on defendant’s street car line, paid ber faré and was admitted by defendant through its turnstile to its platform or loading dock at which its cars stopped to receive passengers. She thereby became a member of a crowd variously estimate at from 80 to 200 persons waiting on this dock to board the first car to arrive at said dock on its way back to the city. This platform, about 120 feet long and 14 feet wide, was constructed of cinders, the surface thereof extending almost…