Consolidated City & Chelsea Park Railway Co. v. Carlson

I. This action was brought by John Carlson, as administrator of the estate of Victor Carlson, deceased, against the Consolidated City & Chelsea Park Railway Company, a corporation operating a street railway in Kansas City, Kansas, to recover damages for negligently causing the death of Victor Carlson. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $4,134. The place where the injury was inflicted was at the intersection of Shawnee and Fifth Streets. The defendant’s road was operated by electricity. The car which struck Victor Carlson was passing east on the south track of…