Higgins v. Connecticut Light & Power Co.

This action , was brought under the provisions of General Statutes, Sup. 1941, § 822f, which, under certain prescribed conditions, allows a joinder of several plaintiffs in one action involving rights to relief arising out of the same transaction. The plaintiff’s intestate, Higgins, and the other plaintiff, Jacobson, were employed by the highway department of the state of Connecticut in trimming trees in a public highway of the state. While so engaged Higgins came in contáct with a high tension wire of the defendant and was electrocuted. Jacobson claimed to have suffered an electric shock at…