Menden v. Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

Upon this appeal defendant contends, (1) that its negligence, if any, was not a cause of the death of plaintiff’s intestate; (2) that assuming it to be an efficient cause, the negligence of deceased was as a matter of law greater than any negligence that could be fastened upon it. The nature of the contention makes it necessary to review the facts.

Defendant maintained a three-phase feeder circuit extending northwesterly and southeasterly along Hickory street, Milwaukee, on the southerly side of a building occupied in part by the Beckwith Manufacturing Company and the Ebner Shoe Company. This…