Twine v. Norris Grain Co.

BOUR, C.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment for damages in the sum of $7,500 for medical expenses incurred by plaintiff, and for loss of her son’s services on account of injuries sustained by him when he came in contact with certain electric equipment in a substation on the premises of a grain elevator located in North Kansas City, Missouri. The grain elevator in question is owned by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, and the defendant herein, Norris Grain Company, was the lessee and operator of the elevator at the time of the accident.

The petition alleged that for…