Earl W. Baker Utilities Co. v. Haney

The parties here occupied reverse relative positions in the trial court, and hereafter they will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant.

The amended petition alleged in substance that Earl W. Baker Utilities Company, as such, maintained a high-tension highline carrying electricity at the time and place in question; that the highline runs along the west side of the Twin Lakes Gun Club property, and along a wire fence with steel posts set in the ground; that one of the glass insulators was in some manner broken; that through the negligence of defendant the east cable became detached and…