Anstead v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of the superior court of Shasta County, after verdict by a jury, awarding plaintiff damages in the sum of $15,000 for personal injuries.

The plaintiff was but nine years of age at the time of the accident which resulted in his injuries. He suffered an electric shock and electric burns while in an apple tree on a ranch in Shasta County, which ranch was occupied by his father and family. The plaintiff had climbed the tree to pick apples. Through one side of this apple tree, in a space cleared for the purpose, defendant and its predecessors in…