Anderson v. Southern California Edison Co.

Action to recover damages for injuries caused by contact with a high voltage wire maintained by defendant company, a public service corporation, as a part of its electrical distributing system.

Plaintiff claimed that the defendant company negligently maintained its wires in dangerous proximity to the roof of a certain building upon which he was working, in consequence of which he received the injuries complained of. The defendant denied any negligence on its part and alleged contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. It also set up in its answer by way of separate defense that at…