Peterson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co.

Hilton, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment entered after defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict for plaintiff was granted.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Gustaf Peterson, a youth of 18% years of age, w'as electrocuted when a tree he was cutting on his father’s property either struck, or came into the immediate vicinity of, high-tension electrical wires maintained by defendant.

Some poles were needed to construct a scaffold along the side of a garage Gustaf and others were shingling. He and his brother went to the pasture to cut a few from a stand of young trees growing near defendant’s…