Nanninga v. Three Rivers Electric Cooperative

I respectfully dissent because I believe that the district court did not err in instructing the jury on the standard of care.

The Missouri Supreme Court has made it clear that the highest standard of care does not apply in all cases brought against suppliers of electricity. If the accident causing injury did not involve “the inherently dangerous properties of electricity, *538the ‘highest degree of care’ standard which is utilized when electricity is the agent of injury is not applicable.” Pierce v. Platte-Clay Elec. Coop., 769 S.W.2d 769, 771 n. 1 (Mo.1989). In the case before the court it is not…