Hiroshima v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

This cause is before us upon an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered against it based upon an assault upon the plaintiff made by an employee of the defendant named J. Y. Downs.

The record shows that on or about the 9th day of July, 1934, J. Y. Downs, an employee of the defendant, went to a certain ranch property operated by the Walsh Station Orchard Company, of which the plaintiff was the manager; that the purpose of Downs going to said orchard company’s place of business was either-to disconnect a power-line maintained by the defendant, furnishing power to a pumping-plant belonging…