The California Court of Appeal for the Second District has recently affirmed a lower court’s decision to exclude testimonies offered by former employees in a previous case as evidence in proceedings for the present case.
In Barber et al. v. Southern California Edison Company, the plaintiffs lived on a property on Knob Hill Avenue in Redondo Beach, which was close to the Topaz substation of the Southern California Edison Company (SCE). They filed a suit seeking damages from SCE primarily for emotional distress. They claimed that electricity from the substation made them experience shocks on their property.
In a motion for summary judgment, SCE contended that the plaintiffs could not prove that electricity from its system caused the shocks. To oppose this, the plaintiffs provided an excerpt from a trial in the case of Wilson v. Southern California Edison Co. (2015), which included testimony from certain witnesses.
One witness, a former SCE employee, testified that in 1983 or 1984 he found out that the Topaz substation was emitting stray electrical currents affecting the adjacent residents and that this voltage issue had been known for some time.
Another witness, an ex-employee of the Southern California Gas Company, testified that he heard about the stray voltage issue impacting Knob Hill’s residents while he was working as a district operations manager and that he received reports of voltage getting onto the gas lines of the avenue’s homes and facilities.
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