Legal Opinion
Kansas Gas & Electric Co. v. Evans
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 22, 1938No. 1680PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for damages. The Kansas Gas and Electric Company constructed an underground vault beneath the concrete sidewalk immediately north of the Allis Hotel in Wichita, Kansas, and installed therein transformers, network reducers, and auxiliary equipment for use in serving electric energy to its customers in adjacent buildings. The vault was covered with a steel or iron door in two parts, commonly referred to in the record as a manhole. It was about 42 inches square, positioned in a steel frame fastened with hinges on opposite sides of the frame, opened in the…
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