Yolo v. Modesto Irrigation District

Appeal from judgment of nonsuit in favor of defendant in an action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of plaintiffs’ minor child on April 7, 1926. The boy was electrocuted on the farm where he was working while crawling through a fence, the wires of which had become charged with electricity when one of the transmission wires of defendant’s power line broke during a high wind, from rubbing against the branches of a tree or other cause, and contacted the wire strands of an adjoining fence.

The power wires, at the place where the break occurred, passed through a line of trees, the…