Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha v. Great Western Power Co.

JAMES, District Judge.

Appellee, at the time the cause herein concerned arose, was engaged in furnishing electric power for industrial uses in the city of San Francisco. Some part, at least, of the electric energy distributed by it, was generated at a point distant from San Francisco, and was conducted from the Alameda county shore across the bay through two cables. These cables, so far as can be learned from the record, rested on the floor of the bay. Where the cable emerged from the water at pier 18 on the San Francisco water front, signs were displayed which indicated the fact that there…