Breshears v. Union Electric Company

EAGER, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damage to crops in the June-July, 1951, flood on the Lake of the -Ozarks; it is based on the theory of trespass. The case has been here previously, the opinion appearing at Mo., 347 S.W.2d 233; there a judgment for plaintiffs was reversed because of deficiencies in plaintiffs’ main verdict-directing instruction. The amended petition upon which the case was tried is in thirteen counts, and there are -thirteen plaintiff “units,” i. e., individual plaintiffs or married couples, all of whom are farmers along the Osage, the Pomme de Terre or the Little Pomme…