Nicholas v. Topeka Railway Co.

Citations

• 96 Kan. 699
• 153 P. 506
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 470

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Negligence — Street Railway — Injuries from Defective Crosswalk■— Street Railway Not Liable. Where a street railway company maintains its tracks in a city on the grade required by ordinance, and is not required by ordinance to build crosswalks or keep them in repair, and the city constructs a walk across the railway tracks and places the top of the walk nine inches below the top of the rails, the company is not liable for injuries sustained by a pedestrian by being tripped by the rail while attempting to cross the railway track on the walk.</p>