Harris v. Buckeye Irrigation Co.

OPINION

OGG, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in a wrongful death action wherein the plaintiffs-appellees, Thomas and Hallie Harris (Harris) recovered damages from the defendant-appellant, Buckeye Irrigation Company (Company) for the wrongful death of their son, Marlon Harris, who drowned in the Company’s irrigation canal.

The procedural history of this case is important because the resolution of the issues raised by this appeal are dependent, to some extent, upon the resolution of the first Harris v. Buckeye Irrigation Company case, 118 Ariz. 498, 578 P.2d 177 (1978).…