Billings v. Kansas City-Leavenworth Railroad

Citations

• 73 Kan. 757
• 83 P. 1115
• 1906 Kan. LEXIS 317

Syllabus

<p>1. Damages — Death by Wrongful Act — Evidence. Where an ordinance required railroad-tracks to be constructed level with established street grades, but there was no proof of the violation of the ordinance, it was held not error, in a personal-injury case, to exclude testimony that defendant’s track was above the surface of the street.</p> <p>2. - Violation of Speed Ordinance. The provisions of an ordinance regulating the speed at which cars should be operated were said to refer to ordinary operation, and not to exceptional acts in clearing the tracks of snow.</p>