Crow v. Kansas City Power & Light Co.

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

Betty Crow, John Dority, and Nevada Dority (“Appellants”) are, respectively, the mother and emancipated natural children of John Dority (“Dority”), who died after an uninsulated aluminum ladder he was moving came in contact with an uninsulated 7,000-volt overhead electric power line while he was performing daytime painting work on Unit 9 of an apartment complex known as The Ethans, located at 8300 North Hickory in Kansas City, Missouri. At the time of the accident, which occurred on August 14, 2000, the power line in question was maintained by Defendant Kansas City…