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· 3/12/1913

Mayhew v. Yakima Power Co.

Citations

  • 72 Wash. 431
  • 130 P. 485
  • 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1480

Syllabus

<p>Electeicity — High Voltage Wibes — Negligence—Evidence—Sufficiency. Negligence in the maintenance of a high voltage power line along a county road, carried on cross-arms forty feet above the ground, is not shown from the fact that the line came in contact with a hay-loading derrick forty-five feet high, with a revolving arm, which was being hauled along the highway, where there was no evidence that it was usual or customary to haul such derricks along the highway.</p>

Judges: Chadwick

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