Anderson v. Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad

Raymond Anderson, 18 years of age, a clerk in the Boyd Drug Store at Gowrie, met his death on the 19th day of August, 1925, by reason of an electric shock. For some years prior to the date of the death of the boy, the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad Company had been supplying the' electrical power to Gowrie for lighting and power purposes from its power house at Fraser, over a three-phase, 22,000-volt circuit. In about the central portion of the town of Gowrie is a transformer, the purpose of which is to reduce the voltage coming in on the main transmission line from 22,000 volts…