Culver-Stockton College v. Missouri Power & Light Co.

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a $125,050 judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff on a claim for negligence in failing to inspect and properly maintain an electrical power line, which resulted in a fire at a building owned by plaintiff.

Defendant raises seven points on appeal. The first two points claim plaintiff failed to make a submissible case. Point three claims there was no evidence to support the opinion of plaintiff’s expert witness who testified about the cause of the fire, and that the expert’s testimony invaded the province of the jury. Defendant’s fourth and…