Boomer v. Southern California Edison Co.

HAHN, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict for the plaintiffs for damages suffered by reason of the destruction by fire of certain household furnishings belonging to the plaintiffs and located in a dwelling occupied by them as their home.

The complaint alleges that the defendant without right or permission so to do attached its “high-powered electric service wires” to plaintiffs’ house for the purpose of serving electric energy to a house located upon an adjacent lot; that the said wires were so defectively, negligently and carelessly…