Sickles v. Mt. Whitney Power & Electric Co.

This is an appeal by the Mt. Whitney Power & Electric Company from a judgment, after verdict against it and in favor of the respondents, plaintiffs, and defendant San Joaquin Light & Power Corporation.

The appellant was operating a power line carrying an electrical current of thirty-three thousand volts and also a telephone line using one hundred volts. For some distance these lines were parallel. The high voltage electric line came in contact with the telephone line, the electricity passed along the telephone line and into a private line owned by the plaintiff Sickles, then to his house,…