Guenith Opal Beedy and Cynthia Guen Beedy, by Her Next Friend, Guenith Opal Beedy v. The Washington Water Power Co., a Corporation

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant-appellee in a negligence action. The plaintiffs, appellants here, are the widow and surviving child of George D. Beedy, who was electrocuted while assisting in the installation of an electric transmission line. Beedy was an employee of the Lewis Construction Company, who were acting as independent contractors of the Washington Water Power Co., in the replacement of electrical conductors from the Power Company’s substation at Gov- eminent Gulch to the substation Burke in the State of Idaho.

The complaint alleged that Beedy’s death came about when he was assisting in installing a. transmission line across and above a 13,000-volt electric power line which was owned, operated, and energized by the defendant-appellee Power Company; that the transmission line was attached to a winch on a truck and came into contact with the defendant’s 13,000-volt power line which energized • the transmission line which in turn carried a deadly charge to the truck with which Beedy was in contact, thereby electrocuting him. It was alleged that defendant-appellee was negligent in that (a) the defendant failed and refused to cut off the power on…