Linn Grove Light & Power Co. v. Fennig

McMahan, C. J. —

Appellee recovered judgment because of an injury received by coming in contact with an uninsulated electric wire belonging to appellant. Appellant owned and operated a line of poles along a public highway on which poles were strung bare uninsulated wires carrying 6,600 volts' of electricity. Appellee was engaged in moving a house along the highway, and, in order that the house might pass under certain guy wires which were not far enough from the ground to permit the passage of the house, he climbed on the roof of the house to raise the guy wire, and in so doing accidentally…