Stanley Ex Rel. Stanley v. Town of Smithfield

The question involved: “Does the complaint state a cause of action wherein it is alleged that a minor boy eleven years old suffered serious bodily injury from an electric current coursing through' bis body, while at play, on a main well-traveled public highway, when be accidentally threw a small wire attached to an improvised spool across the uninsulated electric wires of the defendant whereon 2300 volts of electricity were being transmitted and approximately twenty-three feet above the surface of tbe giound?” We think not.

The plaintiff cites many decisions in this State sustaining liability,…