Hayden v. Carey

The following opinion was filed November 13, 1923:

Doerfler, J.

The break in the wire was not discovered until the time of the accident, and while there was no evi*535dence of an eye-witness establishing the cause of such break, nevertheless we are of the opinion that sufficient facts had been proven from which the jury could readily infer that the apple tree in falling struck the wire, breaking it, and causing it to rest, when the accident occurred, upon the broken branches located between the trunk of the tree and the nearest electric light pole. The broken end of the wire through which the power…