BROWN v. SCOTT-NEW MADRID-MISS. ELEC.

No. 14877.

728 S.W.2d 303 (1987)

Sharon Kay BROWN and Darren Eugene Brown, by the duly appointed Guardian and Conservator, Sharon Kay Brown, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SCOTT-NEW MADRID-MISSISSIPPI ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, Defendant-Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two.

April 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip J. Barkett, Jr., Demster, Barkett & Pruett, Sikeston, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John R. Hopkins, Jr., Hyde, Purcell, Wilhoit, Spain, Edmundson and Merrell, Poplar Bluff, for defendant-respondent.


MAUS, Judge.

In this action for wrongful death by electrocution a jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiffs' point on appeal is that the trial court erred in giving a converse instruction submitted by the defendant. Only a brief outline of the facts is necessary for consideration of that point.

In the fall of 1984, a farm machinery sales company was moving its business location approximately one mile. A submersible pump was to be moved from...

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