Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Schulz

OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by defendants PEC and LCRA from judgments against them for plaintiffs Eric and Kenneth Schulz in a personal injury case.

Plaintiffs Eric and Kenneth Schulz sued defendants PEC and LCRA for personal injuries sustained when the mast of a sailboat operated by Kenneth Schulz on Lake Travis, and in which Eric Schulz was a passenger, came in contact with a powerline owned by PEC, and engineered and maintained by LCRA.

Trial was to a jury which found:

1) The electric current carrying wire was maintained lower than it would have been maintained by one…