Metropolitan Street-railway Co. v. Ryan

Citations

• 69 Kan. 538
• 77 P. 267
• 1904 Kan. LEXIS 289

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Street-railway—Injury to Passenger—Demurrer to Evidence Improperly Overruled. Where, upon the trial of an action for personal injuries, plaintiff testified that she alighted from an east-bound street-car and passed back of it and to the northward upon a parallel track four feet distant on which cars traveled in an opposite direction, without looking for an approaching car, and sustained injury, and that by looking eastward along the space between the parallel tracks, after passing by the end of the standing car, she could have seen an approaching car for a distance of two blocks, it is held, that it is error to overrule a demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence.</p>