KANSAS GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. EVANS

No. 1680.

100 F.2d 549 (1938)

KANSAS GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. EVANS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 22, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blatchford Downing, of Kansas City, Mo., and Glenn Porter, of Wichita, Kan. (McCune, Caldwell & Downing, of Kansas City, Mo., and Hart, Porter & McDonald, of Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for appellant.

Allen Burch, of Wichita, Kan. (Fred Aley, Brooks, Fleeson & Aley, and Burch, Cowie & Martz, all of Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for damages. The Kansas Gas and Electric Company constructed an underground vault beneath the concrete sidewalk immediately north of the Allis Hotel in Wichita, Kansas, and installed therein transformers, network reducers, and auxiliary equipment for use in serving electric energy to its customers in adjacent buildings. The vault was covered with a steel or iron door in two parts, commonly referred to in the record as a manhole...

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