Clark v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

The plaintiff had judgment in the sum of $4,250 for and on account of damages alleged to have been suffered by reason of coming in contact with a high-powered electric transmission line, negligently maintained by the defendant. From this judgment the defendant appeals, and also from an order denying defendant's motion for judgment in its favor, notwithstanding the verdict.

The complaint alleges that on the third day of May, 1929, the defendant was maintaining a power transmission line suspended on poles, in and over the Cutten-McDonald tract, near or adjacent to the city of Eureka; that the…