Interstate Power Co. v. Thomas

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota in an action brought by 0. W. Thomas, appellee, against Interstate Power Company, appellant, for damages for personal injury caused by an electric shock to the said Thomas from appellant’s power line.

Parties will be designated as in the trial court.

The facts are as follows: Plaintiff was a farmer, who for twenty-four years previous to the accident had lived on a farm four miles south of Warren, Minn. Minnesota highway No. 6 passed the farm in a north and south…