Chase v. Washington Water Power Co.

(Dissenting) — August 25, 1939, two chicken hawks flew into a 60,000 volt electrical transmission line being maintained by appellant, The Washington Water Power Company, a corporation, along the east line fence of Peter L. Beck, in places the fence being nailed to the transmission line poles. At the pole where the hawks flew into the transmission line the three wires of the fence were in direct contact with a metal guy wire fastened near the top of the pole and anchored in the ground some fifteen feet north of the pole, a space of 28 inches existed between the transmission wire and the guy…