Ogden v. Wilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Harry M. Ogden was killed by being struck by a street car while crossing the track on foot in Kansas City, Kan. His widow brought this action against the receivers of the street railway company and recovered a judgment, from which this appeal is taken.

The accident occurred about half past ten in the morning. The plaintiff’s husband alighted from a truck on the west side of Thirteenth street, which runs north and south, just south of Garfield, which runs east and west. He undertook to cross the intersection diagonally, walking to the…