Western Light & Power Co. v. Poor

*381Defendant in Error brought this action against Plaintiff in Error for ‘alleged damages sustained by contact with a broken electric wire. From a judgment in his favor for 32500 the Company brings the cause here for review. The parties are hereinafter designated as in the trial court.

Defendant owned and controlled an electric line, carrying 6000 volts, suspended on poles some 25 feet from the ground, and passing near a schoolhouse. Plaintiff, a boy of about ten years of age, attending this school, was sent by his teacher on the morning of September 3, 1918, on an errand to a nearby farmhouse.…