Conley v. City of Kansas City

Citations

• 110 Kan. 95
• 202 P. 607
• 1921 Kan. LEXIS 172

Syllabus

<p>syllabus by the court.</p> <p>Negligence — Obstruction in City _ Street — Personal Injuries — No Negligence Shown. Plaintiff, in the nighttime, while walking to her home came to a street which was in process of being repaired. At or near the point where she entered the street, the contractor had placed a barricade across the repaved portion and had stationed a watchman who spoke to the plaintiff and told her not to walk in the street but to stay on the sidewalk until she got to the alley or crossing, then she could go out into the street. Before reaching the alley she started across the park strip to get into the street and was injured by falling over some pieces of iron water pipe which the contractor had left lying lengthwise on the .parking. Claiming that defendants owed her the duty to give her warning of the presence of the water pipe or to have placed lights thereon, she sued the city and the contractor for damages. Held, that the facts stated failed to show negligence on the part of the defendants.</p>