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- Title: Powers v. Kansas Power & Light Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 21, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal by plaintiff, Ray E. Powers, from a judgment entered in District Court of Wyandotte County following a month-long jury trial and from the order overruling his motion for a new trial. Plaintiff's extensive personal injury claims arose on July 29, 1975, when a crane on which he was working came into contact with a high voltage power line. He brought this action against Kansas Power & Light company, owner of the power line; Bucyrus-Erie Company, manufacturer of the crane; and Contractors Supply Company, the owner and lessor of the crane. His claims against Kansas Power & Light (KP&L) were based upon negligence, and against Bucyrus-Erie Company (B-E) and Contractors Supply Company (CSC) on both negligence and strict liability in tort. Plaintiff's employer and the lessee of the crane, United Structural Erectors, Inc., (USE) was joined as an additional party defendant, pursuant to K.S.A. 60-258a(d), on motion of the defendants for the purpose of having the percentage of its causal negligence determined. The jury returned a verdict finding the plaintiff to be ten percent and United Structural Erectors ninety percent at fault, and absolved the other defendants of contributing to or causing the injuries and damages. Plaintiff raises a number of issues, which we will separately state and determine later in this opinion. The accident occurred during the construction of a new high school at Atchison, Kansas. Plaintiff was employed as an oiler for United Structural Erectors, a subcontractor on the job. USE was using a thirty-five ton lattice boom Bucyrus-Erie mobile crane which it was leasing from Contractors Supply Company. At the time of the accident, the crane was equipped with a 100-foot boom to which was attached a 20-foot jib. On the day of the [234 Kan. 91]
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