Goddard Ex Rel. Goddard v. St. Joseph Light & Power Co.

WELBORN, Commissioner.

This is an action for $50,000 damages, brought on behalf of Nason Leroy Goddard, a minor, by his mother as next friend, against the St. Joseph Light and Power Company and the City of St. Joseph, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by Nason as the result of negligence of the defendants in the construction and maintenance of an electrical distribution system and an electrical street lighting system in St. Joseph. Upon a trial in the Buchanan County Circuit Court, the jury could not agree. Thereafter, the trial court sustained the defendants’ motions for…