Farmers Win Suit Against Negligent Utility Company

A Rochester law firm has won a legal case for a farm family that lost their milking herd due to stray voltage issues on their dairy farm. Rochester-based Bird, Jacobsen, and Stevens represented Randy and Peggy Norman from rural Pine River. That’s near Brainerd. Crow Wing Power, a Brainerd utility company, was found negligent in the delivery of electricity to the farm. The Normans lost their entire dairy herd due to electrical stray voltage coursing through their farm for twenty years. That caused the injury or death of the Norman’s dairy cows.