Predmore v. Consumers' Light & Power Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Consumers’ Light and Power Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 13th day of November, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of November, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The defendant corporation maintains an electric lighting plant in the city of Middletown, furnishing lights under the incandescent system and the arc system. For the maintenance of incandescent lights the necessary voltage is only 110, while the arc wire carries 2,300 volts. The plaintiff’s intestate was killed by a shock of electricity received while he was endeavoring to put out some of the incandescent lights upon a chandelier in front of the bar in a cafe upon West Main street in the city of Middletown on the evening of January 22, 1902. There was evidence tending to…
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