Consolidated Electric Light & Power Co. v. Koepp

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

The plaintiff below sought to recover damages in this action for injuries which it is alleged he sustained by coming in contact with what is known as a live telephone wire.

The substance of the allegations in his petition is that the defendant, the Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company, in operating its plant in Kansas City, Kan., had its poles on and along Osage avenue running east and west from Ninth street to Ferree street; that it negligently permitted one John Radford to attach to and string along on its electric-light poles a…