Wallace v. Great Western Power Co.

The plaintiffs commenced this action for damages for the death of their minor son, a boy of a little over twelve years of age, caused by his coming in contact with a high-voltage cable located upon and passing through an electric tower within the limits of the city of Oakland, which cable and tower were being maintained by the defendant for the purpose of the transmission of an electric current of high voltage along its power lines and into said city. The tower in question was one of a series of steel-framed towers which the defendant had constructed, and was maintaining to about the number…