Smith v. Kewanee Light & Power Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the City Court of Kewanee county; the Hon. H. Sterling Pomeroy, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
Raymond E. Smith, a lineman for the Home Telephone Company of Kewanee, was killed by coming in contact with a high potential current of electricity from a wire of the Kewanee Light & Power Company. His administratrix brought this suit against said company to recover for the loss to the next of kin by his death. A judgment for plaintiff was reversed by us in Smith v. Kewanee Light & Power Co., 175 Ill. App. 354, to which we refer for a general statement of the facts. Upon another trial plaintiff had a verdict and judgment for…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Wilkinson v. Ætna Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
- United States Brewing Co. v. StoltenbergIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. ThenIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
- Taylor v. FelsingIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
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- Gourley v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1938