Hollis v. Kansas City Light & Power Co.

Plaintiff’s action is for damages on account of the death of her husband who was killed on August 10, 1917, by one of defendant’s wires charged with a heavy current of electricity. Judgment for $6000 was obtained and defendant has appealed.

• Deceased was foreman; over, and the engineer in charge of and operating a steam shovel in, defendant’s coal yard situated on the south side of and immediately adjoining Guinotte Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Said Avenue runs east and west and double street car tracks are in the center thereof, the north one being the west bound and the south the east…