Rigtrup v. Strawberry Water Users Ass'n

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiffs, Al G. Rigtrup, et al., brought this action against its electricity supplier Strawberry Water Users Association, alleging that it negligently caused a power outage which resulted in the suffocation of 40,000 chickens in plaintiffs’ poultry business. A jury answered special interrogatories that both parties were negligent: the plaintiffs 90% and the defendant 10%, in causing the loss. Therefore, inasmuch as plaintiffs’ own negligence was thus determined to be greater than that of the defendant, in applying the “comparative negligence” statute referred to below, the…