Beacon Bowl, Inc. v. Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

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• noting that “when prejudgment interest should begin to accrue” would be an “issue” the court would need to address if it had decided to grant prejudgment interest
• employing a commonsense approach to determine the purpose of an administrative code provision requiring the trimming of trees which may interfere with ungrounded supply conductors
• imposing liability on electric company for damages caused by its failure to trim trees properly \will neither increase [it's] common-law duty nor subject it to an unreasonable burden\
• imposing liability on electric company for damages caused by its failure to trim trees properly \will neither increase [it's] common-law duty nor subject it to an unreasonable burden\
• assessing whether injury is too removed from the negligence in time, place, or sequence of events
• considering public policy factors in light of Wisconsin Electric Power Company's negligence in failing to trim trees after the jury found that the electricity it provided was defective and unreasonably dangerous

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