Any person who wilfully and maliciously does any injury to telegraph or telephone or electric power or gas property is liable to the corporation for three times the amount of actual damages sustained thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 7951
Injury to Public Utility Property
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 22 Cal. 3d 388 - Hale v. Morgan (1978)
Most recently applied in 226 Cal. App. 3d 686 - Balmoral Hotel Tenants Assn. v. Lee (December 1990)
Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.