Casada v. Hamby Excavating Co., Inc.

HOGAN, Presiding Judge.

This is a blasting damage case. Plaintiffs have had a verdict and judgment in the amount of $24,970. Defendant appeals.

In briefest sketch, the record shows that in February 1975, defendant was constructing a sewer line in the southwest part of Springfield, Missouri, using ammonium nitrate and dynamite to excavate the trench. By February 18, operations had progressed to a point 130 feet directly east of the plaintiffs’ residence. On that day, defendant’s employees detonated two series of explosive charges at a depth of “approximately seventeen foot.” 1 Apparently, not…