Ruppe v. City of Los Angeles

The defendants may be considered as one for the purposes of discussion, and that one the city of Los Angeles. From a judgment against it for five hundred dollars, had after a trial without a jury, the city appeals.

The complaint alleges and the court finds that the defendant was engaged in the business of supplying electric energy for light and power to its inhabitants, and had in its employ as a meter-setter one Nealon; that Nealon, with certain fellow-employees of the city, was sent by it to wire a certain building and set meters therein so that electric energy might be furnished by the city…