Kansas City Elevated Railway Co. v. Groff

Citations

• 77 Kan. 551
• 95 P. 394
• 1908 Kan. LEXIS 302

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Street-railways — Personal Injuries — Sufficiency of Evidence of Negligence. Evidence tending to establish the following facts held sufficient for presentation to a jury to determine whether the injury referred to was occasioned by the negligence of the defendant, an electric railway company: The plaintiff was waiting for a car in a place commonly used for that purpose; as the car approached the trolley left the wire and flew up, striking and breaking the globe of an electric light, pieces of which fell upon plaintiff’s wrist, causing the injury, complained of; the rope by which the trolley-pole was controlled was not fastened to the car, as the rules of the company required, but was hanging loose; the trolley had previously left the wire at the same place, and the globe of the same lamp had at least twice before been broken by a trolley, but perhaps not in the same manner.</p>