Bell v. Union Electric Co. of Missouri

CROSS, Judge.

This is a tort action in the nature of trespass maintained by three plaintiffs who seek to recover damages for destruction of their crops resulting from the flooding of the Osage River in June and July of 1951, alleged to have been caused by the construction, operation and maintenance, by defendant Union Electric Company of Missouri, of the Bagnell Dam and the Lake of the Ozarks formed thereby. The petition is in three counts, each of which relates to a separate tract upon which the destroyed crops belonging to the respective plaintiffs were grown. Trial was to a jury which…