Cleveland v. City of Bangor
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions. This was an action to recover for personal injuries which the-plaintiff received by reason of a trolley-wire pole erected and .maintained on Exchange street, Bangor, which she claimed was an obstruction in the street, and such a defect as rendered the street unsafe for public travel.
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On motion and exceptions. This was an action to recover for personal injuries which the-plaintiff received by reason of a trolley-wire pole erected and .maintained on Exchange street, Bangor, which she claimed was an obstruction in the street, and such a defect as rendered the street unsafe for public travel. The only question raised by the exceptions, was to the ruling of the presiding justice upon the plea of defendant, setting up as a bar and defense to this action, that the plaintiff had recovered a judgment against the Bangor Street Kail way, by which the pole was erected and…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
The plaintiff recovered a verdict for $1100 against the city off Bangor for personal injuries received on Exchange street by reason of an obstruction which she claimed rendered the way defective and unsafe for public travel. The defect alleged was one of the poles erected and maintained by the Bangor Street Railway for the support of the trolley wire used in the operation of that company’s road.
The pole in question was located on the westerly side of Exchange street twenty-seven feet northerly from the extension of Washington street. It was set in the street with its outer face eighteen…
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