Jentick v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

The city of San Francisco awarded a contract for the widening of a section of Nineteenth Avenue to Charles Harney. In performing the work, Harney's employees ripped up the pavement with a scarifier and removed the broken fragments with a steam shovel. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company maintained pipes and conduits in the avenue for the supply of gas to abutting residences. Throughout the project the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s employees, including Alvin Parkhurst and John Mc-Grath, marked the location of pipes on the surface of the street, laid temporary surface mains, excavated…