Wray v. Southwestern Electric Light & Water Power Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. E. C. Crow, Judge. (1) There was no evidence to warrant the submission of the case to the jury, and the court should have given the peremptory instructions- asked by the defendant to find for the defendant.
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Appeal from the Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. E. C. Crow, Judge. (1) There was no evidence to warrant the submission of the case to the jury, and the court should have given the peremptory instructions- asked by the defendant to find for the defendant. Blectric Illuminating Go. v. Patterson's Adm'x, 84 Va. 747. • The deceased must have known that the switch was useless because he trimmed the lamp every day for eighteen days with the wires in this condition, and he therefore assumed the risks arising from the • switch being cut out. Moore v. Wire Mill Go., 55 Mo. App. 491. (2) The defect, if…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
Plaintiff sued the defendant for damages resulting to her from the death of her husband, Charles E. Wray, who was killed at about 7:30 o’clock, on the night of September 7, 1895, by an electric current passing through his body,'while manipulating one of defendant’s street lamps, in the city of Joplin.
On a trial in the circuit court, plaintiff had' a verdict and judgment for $2,000 and defendant appealed.
Mamfassuflmpt1ovn ances.sk: apph' I. The principal point we have to determine here is whether or not the lower court erred in refusing to take the ease from the jury and peremptorily order a…
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