Brunelle v. Lowell Electric Light Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the proprietor of an apothecary shop on East Merrimack Street in Lowell against a corporation maintaining an electric light plant in Lowell and furnishing electricity for light, heat and power, for personal injuries from a shock of electricity received when taking hold of a portable cord to carry an electric lamp to a part of the cellar under the plaintiff’s shop.
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Tort by the proprietor of an apothecary shop on East Merrimack Street in Lowell against a corporation maintaining an electric light plant in Lowell and furnishing electricity for light, heat and power, for personal injuries from a shock of electricity received when taking hold of a portable cord to carry an electric lamp to a part of the cellar under the plaintiff’s shop. Writ dated December 7, 1903. At the first trial of the case in the Superior Court before Wait, J. the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,995, and exceptions taken by the defendant were sustained by…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldoh, J.
In our opinion, upon the special findings made by the jury, the plaintiff would be entitled to retain his verdict if there was no error in the admission of evidence or in the instructions upon which those findings were made. But we are of opinion that there was such error.
There was, to say the least, evidence upon which the jury might have found that the plaintiff, in putting into his cellar the wire and appliances for a portable light, violated §§ 9, 10 and 11 of the ordinances of the city of Lowell, in that he failed to notify the inspector of wires of the intended extension before the work…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Cutter v. HoweMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Abbott v. Inhabitants of North AndoverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Brunelle v. Lowell Electric Light Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- M. J. Picketing v. WeldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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