Kruis v. Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon Railway Co.

This action is brought by the plaintiff as the administrator of the estate of his son, Simon, who was killed on the 19th day of June, 1914, by an electric current carried from the third rail on the right of way of the defendant railway company to a fence separating that right of way from the highway by a loose guy wire suspended from one of the defendant telephone company’s poles. A verdict of no cause of action was directed in favor of the railway company, and one was returned by the jury against the telephone company, the appellant here, for $2,203.25 damages. Judgment being entered for…