Court Opinion

ID: 9534406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:39:14.159289+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:30:32.588355
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ALMA WILSON, Chief Justice,
with whom KAUGER, V.C.J., joins, dissenting:
Daniel v. Oklahoma Gas & Elec. Co., 329 P.2d 1060, 1062 (Okla.1958) observes that an electric company owes the public the “highest duty” and “was required to exercise caution adequate to the peril of the destructive agency involved.” The ease further elaborates that the defendant therein had fulfilled its duty
“unless by reason of the location of the line on the property, taking into consideration the location of the building thereon and whether or not the probabilities were such that a person rightfully thereon might come in contact with the uninsulated wire required a standard of care beyond the minimum set forth in the code.”
Daniel, 329 P.2d at 1062. I would revisit Trett v. Oklahoma Gas & Elec. Co., 775 P.2d 275 (Okla.1989) by setting a standard of care for electric transmission companies in keeping with the hazard involved.