Minter v. San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric Co.
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLennon, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment upon a verdict for the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s son. The deceased, a boy sixteen years of age, was killed by an electric shock from one of the defendant’s power wires while he was climbing a eucalyptus tree growing on the highway immediately in front of his father’s premises. The death was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in maintaining imperfectly protected wires at an improper distance from the tree.
[1] The court did not err in overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the…
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