PLAYED AN EXPENSIVE JOKE.
Fathers of Boys Who Tripped a Girl
Are Sued.
Sarah Kincaid, 15-year-old daughter of Mrs. Katherine A. Kincaid of Independence, yesterday brought suit in the circuit court for $2,000 against the fathers of Ellis Short and Ellis Bailey, boys, who, the girl claims, caused her to trip and fall while she was walking along Walnut street near Eighth street in Kansas City a month ago, by stretching a rope across the sidewalk.
The boys were holding the rope so that it lay on the walk when she came near it and just as she was abreast of them they suddenly jerked it taut, she avers. Their fathers, Ellis Short and Earle Bailey, are made defendants in the damage suit The girl says she was permanently injured. The Short boy's father is president of the Jackson County bank at Independence.
