Scott FERGUSON, a Minor, by David L. Ferguson, His Father and Natural Guardian, et al., Appellants,
v.
NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY, Respondent.
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January 16, 1976.
January 16, 1976.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Rischmiller & Wasche and Robert Wm. Rischmiller, Minneapolis, for appellants.
Gordon W. Shumaker, St. Paul, and Joseph T. Burkard, Minneapolis, for Minnesota Trial Lawyers Assn., amicus curiae, seeking reversal.
Pollock, Pollock & Fay, Edward I. Pollock, Los Angeles, Cal., and Edward J. Kionka, Belleville, Ill., for The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, amicus curiae, seeking reversal.
Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp & Brennan, O. C. Adamson II, Mary Jeanne Coyne and R. Gregory Stephens, Minneapolis, for respondent.
Lindquist & Vennum, Maclay R. Hyde, and Harry C. Piper III, Minneapolis, for Minnesota Municipal Utilities Assn. Inc., amicus curiae, seeking affirmance.
LeVander, Gillen, Miller & Magnuson and Harold LeVander, Jr., So. St. Paul, for Minnesota Assn. of Electric Cooperatives, amicus curiae, seeking affirmance.
Field, Arvesen, Donoho, Lundeen & Hoff and Cyrus A. Field, Fergus Falls, for Otter Tail Power Co.; Springer, Carstedt & Kurlander and William D. Carstedt, Chicago, Ill., for Interstate Power Co.; and Hanft, Fride, O'Brien & Harries and William P. O'Brien, Duluth, for Minnesota Power & Light Co., amici curiae, seeking affirmance.
Heard before SHERAN, C. J., and OTIS, KELLY and TODD, JJ., and reheard and decided by the court en banc.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
YETKA, Justice.
This appeal arises out of an action in Hennepin County District Court to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff Scott Ferguson as a result of coming in contact with a tree branch which fell upon an uninsulated 8,000-volt power line while Scott was trimming trees in the backyard of his suburban-Minneapolis home, and consequential damages sustained by his father, plaintiff David L. Ferguson. The...
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