Van Tresse v. Kansas City Public Service Corp.

— The suit was originally instituted against the receivers for the Kansas City Railways Company, a corporation which, on October 27, 1920, was placed in the hands of receivers by the United States District Court in and for the Western District of Missouri. By purchase, the property passed into the hands of the Kansas City Public Service Company, a corporation, the defendant herein. At the time of the accident in question the Kansas City Railways Company owned and operated various lines of street cars in Kansas City, Missouri, one being a double track upon the Paseo, a street running generally…