Seely v. Board of Public Utilities

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff, Joseph E. Seely, by Coming in contact with a broken high-tension wire of the municipal light and power plant in Kansas City.

In a certain section of Kansas City there is a street named Willard avenue, which runs east and west. It is intersected by Wood*966land avenue, which runs north and south. In the block immediately east of Woodland and north of. Willard is an alley fifteen feet wide. About forty feet north of Willard, in this alley, on July 6, 1934, there stood an elm tree,…