Kedziora v. Washington Water Power Co.

Mike and Lottie Kedziora brought this action for the purpose of recovering damages on account of the death of their minor son, John Kedziora, who was killed by an electric shock received from a power line owned and operated by defendant, The Washington Water Power Company.

John Kedziora, a lad eleven years of age, on the afternoon of March 19, 1934, was flying his kite in a tract of vacant land to the south of Thirty-seventh avenue, an unpaved road, in the suburbs of the city of Spokane. The district was rather sparsely settled. John and his friend, Teddy Carl, were flying the former’s kite,…