Case Name: William F. Koepp v. The Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1904-03-12
Citations: 68 Kan. 829
Docket Number: No. 13,534
Parties: William F. Koepp v. The Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 68
Pages: 829–829

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.