239 Mo. App. 1210 - Grace v. Union Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1997
16 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Burge v. Wabash Railroad · Scanlon v. Kansas City · Sullivan v. Union Electric Light & Power Co. · Brands v. St. Louis Car Co. · Nanny v. Vaughn
Most-quoted passages
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““The Court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence that in the months of June and July, 1951, the defendant Union Electric Company, owned and operated a hydro-electric dam across the Osage River at Bagnell, Missouri, and if you further find that said dam impounded the waters of the Osage River, creating a reservoir which at full stage of 660 feet above mean sea level extended from Bagnell, Missouri, to approximately the county line between Henry and St. Clair Counties; and if you further find that Plaintiffs’ farms in question were either' upon or nearby the said reservoir as it extended above Warsaw, Missouri; and if you further find and believe that as a result of the construction, operation and maintenance of the dam at Bagnell by the Defendant silt deposits had been formed in the channel and along the banks of the Osage River in and around Warsaw and to a lesser degree at the various places mentioned in evidence up the river to Smart Island by June, 1951; and if you further find that said silt deposits retarded the flow of the Osage River and its tributaries in the vicinity from Warsaw, Missouri west past Plaintiffs’ farms in June and July 1951 thereby causing the flood waters of the Osage River to go upon Plaintiffs’ farms in June and July 1951 and destroy the crops in question; and if you find and believe from the evidence that under all the conditions then and there existing the . Plaintiffs’ crops would not have been flooded had it not been f”
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