Perry v. Omaha Electric Light & Power Co.

This is an appeal from the district court for Douglas county in an action wherein the plaintiff recovered a judgment for $2,000 for personal injuries sustained while in defendant’s employ. "While in the discharge of his duties as an arc light inspector, owing to the defective construction of defendant’s lines and its failure to keep its wires properly insulated, plaintiff received an electric shock which threw him from the pole where he was working to the pavement helow. He sustained a fracture at the base of the skull and was otherwise injured.

The answer contained a general denial; alleged…