Arkansas-Missouri Power Company v. Ray B. Carl

MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity case in which plaintiff-appellee recovered a judgment based on a jury verdict, for $12,422.58, as damages for serious injuries he sustained as the result of coming in contact with wires charged with electric energy which were owned and maintained by defendant-appellant.

■ On this appeal, defendant does not attack the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s finding as to its negligence, but presents the sole contention that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law which bars his right to recover for the injuries he…