Fike

This is an appeal by the defendant San Joaquin Light & Power Corporation from a judgment entered against it upon a verdict of a jury in the sum of $26,000.

Plaintiff brought this action as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, R. S. Fike, charging that his death was due to the negligence of the defendant corporation.

The facts necessary for a correct understanding of the questions involved on this appeal, and which are practically uncontroverted, may be thus briefly stated:

It was stipulated at the trial that deceased died from an electric shock, which he received on the roof of the Valley Ice Company’s building on the twenty-second day of March, 1919. The Valley Ice Company, a corporation, owned and operated a plant for the manufacture of ice, located about one mile southeast of the city of Fresno. The ice company’s plant was divided into two cement one-story buildings, of the same height, one of which we shall refer to as the “old building,” and the second as the “new building.” The new building had recently been built to the west of the old building. In the operation of its plant the ice company used certain electrical power, furnished by the defendant…