Lomoe v. Superior Water, Light & Power Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: Eeauk A. Ross, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment for damages in an action by plaintiff as administrator for the death’of his son, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: Eeauk A. Ross, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment for damages in an action by plaintiff as administrator for the death’of his son, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The negligence charged is the maintenance of defendant’s wires, carrying large and powerful currents of electricity, so that said wires were resting upon and in contact with other wires located upon a shorter pole than the pole of the defendant standing at tbe corner of Hennepin avenue and Third street at Itasca station,…
1Opinion of the CourtKerwiN, J.
There is little dispute upon the facts in this-case. Itasca station is in the eastern part of the city of Superior and is a place where trains are made up, and contains a group of residences with three or four hundred inhabitants. It is conceded for the purpose of the case that Third street runs east and west and Hennepin avenue north and south,, crossing Third street at right angles. The plaintiff and his deceased son lived near by. On August 6, 1910, at 8:45 p. m., deceased went for a pail of water, and in going the-usual course passed under the guy wire hereafter described. The boy brought…
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