Brigham Ex Rel. Brigham v. Moon Lake Electric Ass'n

ELLETT, Justice:

Scott Brigham, a lad of ten years, sues for personal injuries occasioned when he came in contact with defendant’s high tension wire.

The defendant is a power company furnishing electricity to residents of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. One of defendant’s poles supporting a pair of electric wires charged with 7200 volts had fallen down so that the wire slanted downward from the standing poles almost to the ground where the fallen pole was located. '

Scott, his father, two brothers, and a neighbor boy were searching for Indian arrowheads in an isolated part of the…