Legal Opinion
Theisen v. Minnesota Power & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 6, 1937No. 31,154PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Peterson, Justice.
Appeal by defendant village of Wadena from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action to recover damages for death by wrongful act. Plaintiff’s decedent, John F. Theisen, was killed by an electrical discharge from electric wires while attaching a neon sign to a pole of the defendant village, installed to support a street lamp. The pole was directly beneath high tension wires of a power line maintained by the Minnesota Power & Light Company to conduct electric current. The village pole, 24 feet 7 inches above the ground, was located between two poles used to support the…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Lee v. . the Village of Sandy HillNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- Commonwealth Electric Co. v. RoseIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- Illingsworth v. Boston Electric Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Hoppe v. City of WinonaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
- Ziehm v. United Electric Light & Power Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1906
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Ahlstrom v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1955
- Zuercher v. Northern Jobbing Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1954
- Peterson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1939
- Schroepfer v. City of Sleepy EyeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1943
- Wiseman v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1943
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