Sugar Bros. Co. v. City of Monroe

This is a suit for damages, in the year 1923, to a freight elevator, operated by plaintiff in its wholesale grocery store in the city of Monroe, La., and supplied by that city with electricity as a motive power from its municipally owned plant.

Plaintiff alleges that defendant negligently and carelessly changed the phases of electric current on the circuit on which plaintiff’s store is located, thereby reversing the operation of the elevator, and causing it, when operated, to strike with such force the top beams or superstructure at the roof of the building occupied by plaintiff as to put the…