Hill v. Kansas City Railways Co.

Irene Marie Hill, a negro girl some five years old at the time of the incident which occasioned her injury, sues through her next friend, for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of defendant’s predecessor in title to the street railway property now operated by defendant. Defendant was the purchaser at a receivership and foreclosure sale of the property. The injury occurred, whilst the railway property was in the hands of receivers, but no point is made as to the liability of this defendant, if its predecessor in title, or the receivers, were liable. So the case proceeded…