Metropolitan Street-railway Co. v. Ryan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Atkinson, J. :

On December 13, 1901, plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant’s cars from Argentine, Kan., to the New York Life building, at the corner of Ninth and Wall streets, in Kansas City, Mo. At Ninth street she was transferred to an east-bound car. The Ninth-street car line was a double-track cable system, east-bound cars using the south track and west-bound cars the north, the space between the two being about four feet. When the car stopped at the corner of Ninth and Wall streets plaintiff alighted on the south side at the rear, or west,…