California Court of Appeal May 21, 1929, Docket No. 3681. (Yore v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.)

THOMPSON (R. L.), J.

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages for negligence which is alleged to have caused the destruction of pasturage and cordwood by means of a grass fire.

The defendant owned a right of way along which it was engaged with a gang of workmen in reconstructing a line of electric power poles. Fifteen or twenty men under the direct supervision of Mr.