Graves v. Washington Water Power Co.

Citations

• 44 Wash. 675
• 87 P. 956
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 899

Syllabus

<p>Electricity — Negligence—Injury to Trespassers. An electric company is not liable to a boy who was injured while climbing after bird’s nests, up the steel lattice work of a high pier supporting a public bridge, by reason of coming in contact with one of the company’s live electric wires, which was thirty feet from the ground, properly insulated and eighteen inches from the pier, where the company had no notice that children were in the habit of climbing up such piers; since the place was not one where the public might rightfully go for business or pleasure, nor one that was rendered attractive to children by any act or structure of the company, and since the company could not have reasonably anticipated the presence of children at such place.</p>