BELL v. UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY OF MISSOURI

No. 23655.

367 S.W.2d 812 (1963)

Don BELL, Beulah S. Drake and Elvin Hubbs, Respondents, v. UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY OF MISSOURI, a corporation, Appellant.

Kansas City Court of Appeals, Missouri.

April 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Poague, Brock & Wall, Clinton, H. C. Salveter, Sedalia, Harry H. Kay, Eldon, John A. Woodbridge, St. Louis, of counsel, for appellant.

George H. Miller, Sedalia, Floyd L. Sperry, Jr., Clinton, for respondents.


CROSS, Judge.

This is a tort action in the nature of trespass maintained by three plaintiffs who seek to recover damages for destruction of their crops resulting from the flooding of the Osage River in June and July of 1951, alleged to have been caused by the construction, operation and maintenance, by defendant Union Electric Company of Missouri, of the Bagnell Dam and the Lake of the Ozarks formed thereby. The petition is in three counts, each of which relates to...

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