Leavenworth Coal Co. v. Ratchford
Court of Appeals of Kansas
Error from Leavenworth District Court. Hon. Robert Crozier, Judge. This was an action for damages for injuries suffered by the defendant in error from contact with a broken electric-light wire belonging to the plant operated by the plaintiff in error in the city of Leavenworth.
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Error from Leavenworth District Court. Hon. Robert Crozier, Judge. This was an action for damages for injuries suffered by the defendant in error from contact with a broken electric-light wire belonging to the plant operated by the plaintiff in error in the city of Leavenworth. As gleaned from the evidence, the facts were, that, during the early hours of the morning of May 7, 1889, a storm of rain, wind, thunder and lightning occurred, which raged till about four o’clock A. M. ; that aboui 6 A. M. the defendant in error discovered that one of the plaintiff in error’s wires had broken and that…
1Opinion of the CourtMahan, P. J.
Counsel for plaintiff in error make in their brief eleven assignments of error. The first is, that the jury erred in finding that the failure to use the magneto bell contributed to the accident. The special findings of the jury upon that question are as follows :
“Is the magneto bell the best or most approved device for the purpose of ascertaining whether an electric current is broken or not? ” A. “Yes.”
“ Did the defendant have such magneto bell in its power house when the electricity was being generated at the tim e of the inj ury complained of?” A. “Yes.”
“If, when it was discovered in the…
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