CALDERONE v. ST. JOSEPH LIGHT & POWER CO.

No. KCD 28568.

557 S.W.2d 658 (1977)

Charles CALDERONE, Respondent-Plaintiff, v. ST. JOSEPH LIGHT & POWER COMPANY, Appellant-Defendant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

October 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Douglass, Wilcox & Houts, St. Joseph, for appellant-defendant.

Frank K. Nichols, Pope & Nichols, James O. Turner, Turner & Whetsell, St. Joseph, for respondent-plaintiff.

Before SHANGLER, P. J., and WELBORN and HIGGINS, Special Judges.


SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff Calderone had judgment for personal injury from contact with a fallen electric power line owned by the defendant St. Joseph Light and Power Company. The plaintiff submitted his case to the jury on the theory that the defendant negligently failed, within a reasonable time after notice, to turn off the power to an uninsulated 7200 volt transmission line which was down and suspended across an intersection. The defendant submitted...

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