ERBES v. UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY

No. 48501.

353 S.W.2d 659 (1962)

Oscar ERBES, Respondent, v. UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

February 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Ferrell, Keefe, Schlafly, Griesedieck & Ferrell, St. Louis, for appellant.

Donald Gunn and Barnhart & Sommers, by Don B. Sommers, St. Louis, for respondent.


HOLMAN, Commissioner.

On October 1, 1957, plaintiff was engaged in his employment as an ironworker in the construction of a new Southwestern Bell Telephone building at the corner of Main and McKinley Streets in the City of Union, Missouri. Upon the date mentioned he was severely shocked and burned when a cable he was holding made contact with one of the wires of defendant's 34,500-volt overhead subtransmission line which ran along the west side of McKinley Street...

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