Hardwick v. Kansas City Gas Company

Lee R. Hardwick prosecuted this action against the Kansas City Gas Company, a corporation, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a corporation, on account of the death of Margaret T. Hardwick, his wife, in front of the Grand avenue entrance to the Grand Avenue Temple building, Kansas City, Missouri, at about 5:25 P.M. on November 17, 1939, while she was waiting for him on the sidewalk. A natural gas explosion, ignited by a match struck in the basement of the building by an elevator boy searching for a dropped coin, hurled Mrs. Hardwick and concrete blocks torn out of the sidewalk into…