Fox v. City of Joplin
Decision Date | 06 July 1927 |
Docket Number | No. 4292.,4292. |
Citation | 297 S.W. 449 |
Parties | FOX v. CITY OF JOPLIN |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jasper County; Grant Emerson, Judge.
Action by R. K. Fox against the City of Joplin and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
George V. Farris and Roy Coyne, both of Joplin, for appellant.
R. A. Pearson, of Joplin, for respondent City of Joplin.
E. T. Miller, of St. Louis, and Mann & Mann, of Springfield, for respondent St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.
Plaintiff filed his petition against defendants seeking damages for personal injury. Defendants filed separate demurrers, each alleging that the petition did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The demurrers were sustained, and, plaintiff refusing to plead further, the petition was dismissed, and plaintiff appealed.
The petition, caption omitted, is as follows:
After the allegations as above set out, the petition describes the injuries received and alleges that said injuries were caused directly by the carelessness and negligence of the defendants as alleged and without fault on the part of plaintiff.
Condensed, the petition states that Kentucky avenue is a main traveled street running north and south and intersects Sixth street, which runs east and west; (2) that after intersecting Sixth street Kentucky avenue continues south down to the north line of the right of way; (3) that on reaching the north line of the right of way, Kentucky avenue terminates, but commences again at the south line of the right of way and continues south; (4) that on the...
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