Majors v. Ozark Power & Water Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jasper County Circuit Court. — Hon. Grant Emerson, Judge. (1) Persons'who' for their own private gain or profit send a dangerous agency, electricity, out into the streets and alleys of the city are hound to use the utmost care in preventing the escape from the wires of the electrical current to the injury of others.
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Appeal from Jasper County Circuit Court. — Hon. Grant Emerson, Judge. (1) Persons'who' for their own private gain or profit send a dangerous agency, electricity, out into the streets and alleys of the city are hound to use the utmost care in preventing the escape from the wires of the electrical current to the injury of others. G-eismann v. Mo.Edison Electric Co., 173 Mo. 678; Thompson on Negligence, (2 Ed.), 797. (2) Such persons are hound to the utmost care in inspecting its wires, carrying the electrical current and to remove or remedy any defects thereon, no matter how created or by whose…
1Opinion of the CourtFarriington, J.
The appellant brings her appeal from a judgment adverse to her rendered in the Circuit Court of Jasper County. The case made by her is that her husband was a common laborer, living in Peirce City, Missouri, and in the month of January or February, 1919, was engaged by Henry Mohlering to cut-some large trees in the yard of the home of one Webber. Plaintiff’s husband was killed while engaged in this work in the following manner: He, with several other" men including Mohlering and Mohlering’s brother, had cut one tree in Webber’s yard, and after that cut down a tree which under the evidence was…
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- Harrison v. Kansas City Electric Light Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1906
- American Brewing Ass'n v. TalbotSupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
- Williams ex rel. Williams v. Springfield Gas & Electric Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1918
- McClure v. CampbellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
- Lewis v. Center Creek Mining Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1906
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