Griffin v. United Electric Light Co.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff by receiving an electrical shock from a wire of the defendant company. The plaintiff was a tinsmith, and was at work with a fellow servant placing a galvanized iron conductor on the rear of a building called the American House. He was upon the ground and his fellow servant was on a lad*493der near the roof of the building, which was about twenty-two feet from the ground. The wire from which the plaintiff received the shock ran along the wall of another building until it reached a point about two feet from a corner formed…