Saylor v. Enterprise Electric Co.

The evidence contained in the record proves that the plaintiff’s intestate was accidentally killed while entering upon a public highway which was encumbered with defendant’s transmission lines carrying a dangerous current of electricity. We assume that the defendant’s lines were lawfully within the highway. However, it had no right to interfere with the reasonable use of that road by Saylor in transporting a farming implement over it. There is much uncontroverted evidence in the record supporting plaintiff’s allegation that it was a well-established custom among the farmers of the Prairie…