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- Title: Workman v. City of Emporia
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 09, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by The plaintiff, Martel Workman, brings this action by Elsie
Workman, his wife and next friend, to recover damages from the
city of Emporia, Kansas, for personal injuries allegedly
sustained as a result of negligence on the part of city police
officers. The city filed a motion to dismiss the action on the
ground that the petition failed to state a claim upon which
relief could be granted. The trial court sustained this motion
and the plaintiff has appealed. In summary, the petition alleges that on July 22, 1964, the
plaintiff was a customer and business invitee of the municipal
parking lot operated as a revenue producing business by the city
and equipped with meters to receive coins from the customers;
that while he was a customer the plaintiff became ill and lost
consciousness beside his automobile and has remained in a
semiconscious state to the time this action was filed; that at
3:44 p.m. on said date the police department of Emporia received
a telephone call to attend the plaintiff, and an officer or
officers removed plaintiff to the city jail; that despite
plaintiff's unconscious state the agents, servants and employees
of the city did nothing to investigate his condition nor to
summon medical aid or secure a physician, but let him lie
unconscious until about 10:30 p.m., when a telephone conference
was held with plaintiff's wife, who thereupon called a physician
who had plaintiff taken to St. Mary's Hospital, where emergency
aid was administered.