Consolidated School District No. 3 v. West Missouri Power Co.

ATWOOD, J. —

This is an action for damages for the alleged negligent burning of respondent’s school building and equipment. We quote as follows from appellant’s statement of the case:

“Appellant was the owner of an electric light system, with its plant at Pleasant Hill. Its wires extended north from Pleasant Hill to U. S. Highway No. 40, thence east along said highway, past the Town of Grain Valley to Odessa. This line was commonly referred to as the ‘high line.’ The wires on this line carried 22,000 volts. At a point on the high line about one-half mile south of Grain Valley was what was known…