Harshaw v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action for damages for injuries sustained in a collision between plaintiff’s automobile and defendant’s bus on a public street in a sparsely settled district in Kansas City.

The street called Rainbow boulevard runs north and south and is paved to a width of 36 feet. There are few buildings thereabout and no cross streets for a distance of several' blocks. The street slopes downward towards the north. About 6:30 o’clock a. m., on Decembed 4,1937, as defendant’s bus was traveling rapidly toward the north and plaintiff in his…