Carson v. City of Wichita

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

Plaintiff brought this action for damages against the city of Wichita for the death of her husband. She charged that the city had knowingly maintained a defective street and premises adjacent thereto, in consequence of which an automobile in which her husband was riding capsized, and he was killed.

As the action was disposed of on the city’s demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence, the controlling facts must be stated at some length.

And first as to the locus in quo:

*216Some thirty years ago a certain natural watercourse in the northeast part of the…