Somerfield v. Land & Power Co.

Citations

• 93 Kan. 762
• 145 P. 893
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 21

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Unguarded Canal — Not cun Attractive Nuisance — “Turntable” Cases. An open, unfenced and unguarded canal, about fifty feet wide, with perpendicular banks about thirteen feet high, • carrying a stream of water, about seven feet deep through • a populous city, maintained for commercial purposes, and along the banks of which' the public passes and children gather to play and fish and swim, and into which a young child of the plaintiffs fell and was drowned, can not, of itself, be regarded as an attractive nuisance which will render the company owning and operating it liable for the death of the child under the doctrine of the “turntable” cases.</p>