Zimmerman v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

Action in damages for personal injury. Defendant is a corporation, organized and existing under the law, engaged as a common carrier of passengers for hire, and managing, controlling and operating a system of street railways in Kansas City, Missouri. Plaintiff is married and lives with her husband and two children in said city, and was thirty-six years of age at the time of the occurrence forming the basis of this suit.

The testimony in behalf of plaintiff shows that on February 21, 1928, at about four o’clock P. M., plaintiff attempted to board one of defendant’s eastbound street ears on its…