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WILLIAMS v. PACIFIC GAS & ELEC. CO.

Docket No. 9623.

181 Cal.App.2d 691 (1960)

5 Cal. Rptr. 585

MELVIN L. WILLIAMS, Respondent, v. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

June 10, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Gerdes, Richard H. Peterson, John J. Briare, R.A. Raftery, Henry J. LaPlante, John E. Griffin, Griffin, Conway & Jones and Gilbert L. Harrison for Appellant.

John J. Healy, Healy & Walcom, Robert K. Barber, Francis W. Halley and Zeff, Halley & Price for Respondent.

SCHOTTKY, J.

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has appealed from an adverse judgment in the amount of $190,000 in an action brought by Melvin L. Williams to recover damages for injuries incurred when the current from a high-tension line passed through his body.

For many years preceding this accident the West Stanislaus County Rural Fire Protection District maintained a lookout station on Mount Oso. The station...

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