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STRICKLAND v. ROOSEVELT COUNTY, ETC.

No. 3865.

612 P.2d 689 (1980)

94 N.M. 459

Rhoda Ann STRICKLAND, as personal representative of the Estate of Joseph Kay Strickland, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROOSEVELT COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE and Cyril E. Carter, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

January 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark J. Klecan, Joseph Rocca, Eugene E. Klecan, Wendy M. Bickel, Klecan & Roach, P.A., Albuquerque, for plaintiff-appellant.

Dan B. Buzzard, Clovis, for defendant-appellee, Roosevelt County Rural Elec.

Lynn Pickard, Pickard & Singleton, Santa Fe, for defendant-appellee, Cyril E. Carter.

OPINION

SUTIN, Judge.

This action was brought pursuant to the New Mexico Wrongful Death Act. Decedent was electrocuted while unloading soil conditioner delivered in a truck to a location specified by defendant Carter on Carter's farm. Decedent's truck came in close proximity to power lines installed and maintained by defendant Electric Cooperative. At the conclusion of plaintiff's case, the trial court directed a verdict in favor of both defendants solely...

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