Ellis v. Warren

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that utility company could be liable as a result of “encourag[ing] criminal noncompliance with Chapter 752”
• holding that utility’s violation of overhead line requirement and representation at construction meeting that employer need not call to de-energize line provided basis for common law negligence claim
• concluding that terms “transmission line” and “distribution line,” as used in prior version of Texas Utilities Code, are interchangeable and that both terms refer to any line carrying electric utility’s current
• explaining that “a remedial and curative statute . . . certainly should not be given a narrow, technical construction”
• noting preference for common meaning unless technical meaning has been acquired by “legislative definition or otherwise”
• looking at a statute’s plain and common meaning of the statute’s words to discern the intent of the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).