Fiscus v. Beartooth Electric

This matter comes on an application to accept jurisdiction of an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of plaintiff on an issue of law as to immunity to a common law tort action of the defendant. No issue is made of procedural matters, and we treat this as an appeal.

The defendant in this case is Beartooth Electric Co-operative, Inc., headquartered at Red Lodge, Montana. Its business is supplying electricity in rural areas in Carbon, Stillwater, and Sweet Grass Counties, and in part in Park County, Wyoming. It is a Montana corporation, incorporated in 1938. It has electric transmission…