Dunning v. Northwestern Electric Co.

This is an action for damages to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff between 1:00 and 1:30 A. M. on December 21,1945, while driving a Dodge pickup automobile in an easterly direction on Mill Plain Eoad, a public highway, at a point thereon just east of the city limits of Vancouver, Clark County, Washington.

Plaintiff claims that defendant negligently permitted a certain power pole on its power line on the south side of said highway to remain in use after it had become rotten, old, worn and defective; that said pole had fallen across and obstructed said highway at said point;…