Card v. Wenatchee Valley Gas & Electric Co.

Citations

• 77 Wash. 564
• 137 P. 1047
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 945

Syllabus

<p>Electricity — High Power Transmission Line — Negligence — Question por Jury. The negligence of an electric light company in the maintenance of high power transmission lines is for the jury, where it appears that its uninsulated wires carrying 16,000 volts along a public highway was only 17 feet high, and extended two feet over the line of the highway onto the land of the deceased, who was killed while working under the line with a piece of iron pipe, which came in contact with the wire, and experts testified that such a wire should properly have been carried 45 feet above the ground.</p> <p>Same — Contributory Negligence — Question por Jury. In such a case, the contributory negligence of the deceased was a question for the jury, where it appears that deceased was working upon an irrigation flume on bis land, in which, long iron pipes were used, that he was endeavoring to clear a piece of pipe of obstruction by holding it on end, when it accidentally came in contact with the wire, and the deceased did not know of the extremely dangerous character of the current carried by the wire.</p>