Henderson v. Kansas Power & Light Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

This was an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff who was burned by electrical shock and severely and permanently injured on September 26, 1954, when a television mast which he was helping install came in contact with the defendant’s 33,000 volt three-phase uninsulated transmission line.

This is the fourth appearance of this case. The first appeal concerned the sufficiency of plaintiff’s petition and whether it disclosed plaintiff’s contributory negligence as a matter of law. It was held that it did not, and the…