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UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. JOHNSON

No. 14498.

233 F.2d 427 (1956)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. LaVerl JOHNSON and Joleen Johnson, Husband and Wife, and Pacific Fruit Express Company, a Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan P. Leverich, Salt Lake City, Utah, L. H. Anderson, E. C. Phoenix, Pocatello, Idaho, for appellant.

George R. Phillips, B. W. Davis, Louis F. Racine, Jr., Pocatello, Idaho, for appellees.

Before STEPHENS, FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff LaVerl Johnson on November 4, 1950, received a terrific shock from electricity while working in a transformer sub-station of the Pacific Fruit Express Company at Pocatello, Idaho. He, as a laborer of Pacific Fruit, had been sent by his supervisor into the enclosure surrounding the sub-station to do some painting. Not knowing that wires which were part of the lightning arrester mechanism...

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