Young v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

BARRETT, Commissioner.

In transferring from a bus to a streetcar, at midday on a clear, sunshiny day, it was-necessary for the plaintiff, Mrs. Jessie M. Young and her friend, Mrs. Clark, to walk across the turn-around track at 63rd and Brookside. Mrs. Young, walking three or four feet behind Mrs. Clark, stubbed her toe on the flange of a guardrail and fell. The flange projected upward above the rail a quarter of an inch (according to the defendant) or two inches (according to the plaintiff). For her injuries,'resulting from the defendant’s negligence in the maintenance of its property, Mrs.…