Fawkes v. National Refining Co.

This is an action for $60,000 damages for personal injuries. On May 9, 1931, plaintiff was a passenger riding with •her husband in the cab of his one-half ton truck about ten-thirty in the evening eastwardly along Van Horn Road; which road is a part of the State highway system in Jackson County connecting Kansas City and Independence. They were driving home. It had been raining and at the time it was misting. On the south side of Van Horn Road at its intersection with Hardy Avenue, defendant National Refining Company, hereinafter referred to as the “company” maintained a gasoline filling…