Gentle v. Northern States Power Co.

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff sues to recover damages for personal injuries.

The complaint alleges that plaintiff was injured, while he was working on the roof of a building of the Northern Pump Company in Anoka county, through defendant’s negligence in placing and maintaining a certain high-tension wire over the building in close proximity to the roof, failing to properly insulate the wire, and transmitting through the wire, under the circumstances, electricity of high voltage.

In the answer defendant denied that it was guilty of negligence and alleged that plaintiff was guilty of contributory…