Guenith Opal Beedy and Cynthia Guen Beedy, by Her Next Friend, Guenith Opal Beedy v. The Washington Water Power Co., a Corporation

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant-appellee in a negligence action. The plaintiffs, appellants here, are the widow and surviving child of George D. Beedy, who was electrocuted while assisting in the installation of an electric transmission line. Beedy was an employee of the Lewis Construction Company, who were acting as independent contractors of the Washington Water Power Co., in the replacement of electrical conductors from the Power Company’s substation at Gov- eminent Gulch to the substation Burke in the State of Idaho.

The complaint alleged…