BURK v. MISSOURI POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

No. 52478.

420 S.W.2d 274 (1967)

Pauline BURK, Respondent, v. MISSOURI POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, a Missouri Corporation, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

November 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. J. Murphy, Butler, Max Von Erdmannsdorff, Liberty, for respondent.

Alan F. Wherritt, William J. Turpin, Wherritt & Turpin, Liberty, David Harrison, Jefferson City, for appellant.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

The plaintiff, Pauline Burk, has been awarded $25,000.00 damages for the death of her husband by electrocution on May 3, 1965. The appellant, Missouri Power & Light Company, makes four points but they are all related to or connected with its principal contention that its motions for judgment should have been sustained for two reasons (1) that "the evidence failed to establish the fact that Harold...

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