Glastris v. Union Electric Co.

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Action by child-trespasser for personal injuries from contacting electrical wires on a 20-foot utility pole. Plaintiff submitted his case under § 339, Restatement of Torts, the modification of the attractive nuisance doctrine. Defendant utility companies appeal from plaintiff’s judgment, challenging the submissibility of his case and contending his verdict director was prejudicially erroneous.

Fourteen-year-old plaintiff Paul Glastris, admittedly a trespasser, received severe and extensive electrical burns by contact with defendant Union Electric Company’s 7200-volt…