MEYER v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.

No. 33107.

46 Wn.2d 251 (1955)

280 P.2d 257

HARRY B. MEYER et al., Respondents, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY et al., Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

February 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. MacGillivray and Willard W. Jones, for appellant.

Ralph Booth McAbee, for respondents.


MALLERY, J.

We must decide whether a commercially operated ditch fifteen feet in average width with domestic water running in it from two to three-and-one-half feet deep, is an attractive nuisance along the unfenced portion of its course through the city of Richland.

At about noon, on August 28, 1953, plaintiff's two-year-and-eight-months old son left his home. He was unattended and on a tricycle. He traveled over two thousand feet to Thayer drive, a hard...

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