Wear v. Northern States Power Co.

Fred Wear was employed by the Home Insulation Company. On the day in question he and several other employees were engaged in removing a tree which obstructed the driveway of the garage of the company’s manager. It was necessary to cut limbs off the tree before taking the tree down. Wear had brought a magnesium ladder to use in the operation and the other employees had placed this against the trunk of the tree for cutting the north limbs. Defendant’s electric-transmission line, carrying twenty-three hundred volts, passed south of the tree, about three to three and one-half feet from the trunk…