Fike v. San Joaquin Light & Power Corp.

PRESTON, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by the defendant San Joaquin Light & Power Corporation from a judgment entered against it upon a verdict of a jury in the sum of $26,000.

Plaintiff brought this action as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, R. S. Fike, charging that his death was due to the negligence of the defendant corporation.

The facts necessary for a correct understanding of the questions involved on this appeal, and which are practically uncontroverted, may be thus briefly stated:

It was stipulated at the trial that deceased died from an electric shock, which he…