Myers v. Kennedy

This is an action for damages for the death of Yirgil Myers, who died of injuries inflicted when appellant’s automobile was struck by a street car and thrown against Myers so that his leg was crushed against the running board of another automobile beside which he was standing in a St. Joseph street. There was a verdict for $4000, and this appeal followed. The presence of a constitutional question gives this court jurisdiction. The evidence shows that Virgil Myers was standing with one foot on the ground and the other on the running board of his brother’s automobile which was parked on the…