Case ID: kan_68/html/0829-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Ouriam:\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William F. Koepp v. The Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company.
    No. 13,534.
    (75 Pac. 1133.)
    Error from Wyandotte court of common pleas; William G-. Holt, judge.
    Opinion filed March 12, 1904.
    Affirmed.
    
      John A. Hale, and Bird c& Pope, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Harldess, Grysler c& Histed, and A. L. Berger, for defendant in error.
   Per Ouriam:

This case was once decided adversely to plaintiff in error. (64 Kan. 735, 68 Pac. 608.) A judgment in his favor was reversed and a new trial granted, for the reason that the negligence alleged and proved was not the proximate cause of the injury. After the case was remanded, plaintiff below filed a third amended petition, His counsel says in his brief:

“The third amended petition of the plaintiff merely enlarged the cause of action already stated in the second amended petition by inserting other allegations material to the case. . . . The cause of action in both petitions is the same.”

Counsel further states that the third amended petition “is a new version of an old story.” A general demurrer was sustained to this pleading, of which plaintiff below complains.

The proceeding in error impresses us as an attempt to obtain a rehearing in the original case. Counsel for plaintiff in error says:

“The third amended petition, like the second, merely charged common negligence, and the negligence in both cases was charged to be the crossing of its uninsulated electric-light wires with uninsulated telephone wires of Radford.”

The judgment of the court below will be affirmed.