Ballard v. Kansas City Power & Light Co.

This is an action in damages for personal injury. Defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing and distributing electrical current in Kansas City, Missouri, and in furtherance of such business and in connection therewith, owns and maintains underground wires, cables, conduits and other apparatus. Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a cable splicer.

October 22, 1922, the date of the alleged injurjq plaintiff was engaged in splicing cables in a chamber eighty-four inches below the surface of the pavement at the intersection of Eleventh and Oak streets in the city of…