State Ex Rel. Bahner v. Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co.

This suit was brought in the name of the State for the use of the widow and minor children of Joseph A. Bahner, on the charge that he came to his death from electrocution caused by the negligence of the defendant (appellee), and from a judgment on a directed verdict for the defendant the appeal is taken.

The deceased, a young man of twenty-two, with his wife and their two boys, resided at Dundalk in Baltimore County, in a bungalow located on a lot fronting thirty-five feet on New Pittsburg Avenue and running eastward seventy feet along Ninth Avenue to Maxwell Avenue. There was a pole at the…