Hanna v. Central States Electric Co.

On May 20, 1928, plaintiff’s decedent, Maria Floris, met her death by electrocution in coming in contact with a wire fence on the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway right of way, which fence was electrified by a broken high-voltage transmission wire. The current was generated at the plant of the defendant Iowa Public Service Company at Humboldt, Iowa. At the time of the accident, the defendant Central States Company owned, as part of the used transmission line, the line from Luverne to Corwith, but was not using same in the transmission of its own current. However, that utility company had full…