Godfrey Ex Rel. Godfrey v. Kansas City Light & Power Co.

Personal injury suit. On the tenth day of August, 1919, the plaintiff, a boy about twelve years of age, while in a walnut tree gathering walnuts, came in contact with one of defendant's uninsulated electrical wires which ran through said tree, and received a shock therefrom which burned and seriously injured him.

The tree was in the pasture on the McElroy farm located on the Missouri River, a mile east of the eastern city limits of Kansas City. The land adjoining on the west belonged to the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and on the east to the Standard Oil Company. The town of Sugar Creek…