Oesterreich v. Claas

The following opinion was filed January 7, 1941:

Wickhem, J.

Plaintiff’s intestate was instantly killed by electrocution while picking apples in an orchard on the farm of Amanda Raasch in Waukesha county. It is undisputed that he came into- contact with a wire carrying 4,800 volts of electricity which ran somewhere in the vicinity of the apple tree. Its precise location is one of the matters contested upon this appeal. The wire was part of a line about one hundred eight rods long running in a southerly direction from a public highway to a transformer on the farm of defendant Claas. The line…