Reynolds v. Narragansett Electric Lighting Co.

This is an action of the case, brought by the widow and next of kin of Nathaniel T. Reynolds, deceased, to recover damages for his death, which is alleged to have been caused by. the wrongful .act, neglect, and default of the defendant.(1) The deceased was killed in the cellar of the Masonic building, in East Greenwich, R. I., while attempting to turn on an incandescent electric light, by an electric current furnished by the defendant, who caused it to enter a transformer, outside of the building, in an alternating current of about two thousand volts, for the purpose of being there…