Norman Milling & Grain Co. v. Bethurem
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Cleveland County; R. McMillan, Judge. Action by E. A. Bethurem against the Norman Milling & Grain Company, a corporation. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. On rehearing former opinion adhered to.
1Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff in error will be designated as defendant, and defendant in error as plaintiff, in accord with their respective titles in the trial court.
In August, 1909, and at all times since about January, 1903, defendant, a public service corporation, owned and operated electric current wires strung about 24 1/2 or 26 1/2 feet above the ground, and almost immediately over the center of the tops of certain black locust trees, about seventeen or eighteen in number, in a parking on a street in the city of Norman; and plaintiff, the abutting lot owner, having, in about 1896, set and since cultivated…
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