Fenn v. Kansas Gas & Electric Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff, who was knocked down and run over by an auto truck driven by defendant’s employee.

The facts briefly stated were these: Plaintiff was a mail carrier in Hutchinson. He was walking westward on the sidewalk on the north side of Sherman street. As he was crossing an alley running north out of Sherman street which intersected the sidewalk, a Ford truck driven by defendant’s employee, and headed northward into the alley, struck, knocked down and badly injured the plaintiff.

Defendant…