Hawn v. Kansas Gas & Electric Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The action was one for damages for personal injury to a house mover who came in contact with an electric wire which was suspended above the highway on which he was moving a house. The answer pleaded noncompliance with the statute regulating the moving of houses upon highways over which electric power wires are strung. A demurrer to the answer was sustained, and defendant appeals.

The accident occurred at the intersection of two highways, one extending north and south and the other extending east and west from the intersection. On the east side…