People's Telephone Co. v. Conant
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. Action by Mary A. Conant, as administratrix of the estate of Carroll E. Conant, deceased, against the People’s Telephone Company and the Superior Water, Light & Power Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. Action by Mary A. Conant, as administratrix of the estate of Carroll E. Conant, deceased, against the People’s Telephone Company and the Superior Water, Light & Power Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Defendant in error, hereinafter called plaintiff, recovered judgment against plaintiffs in error, hereinafter termed, respectively, the Telephone Company and the Light and Power Company, for $5,130.11, on March 13, 1911, in a suit brought to recover damages sustained by reason of…
1Opinion of the Court
KOHLSAAT,- Circuit Judge
(after stating the -facts as above). This case is practically on all fours with Bell Telephone Company v. Detharding, 148 Fed. 371, 78 C. C. A. 185. .lt appears from the undisputed evidence >that plaintiff’s decedent was of matur'd.age,.and *627fairly well educated. He was possessed of ordinary native and business intelligence. He had, prior to the accident, been engaged in and about electrical plants, and was familiar with and versed in the dangers attending telephone and light .wires. He had been engaged as a “trouble man” in that service, wherein he was obliged to deal…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bell Telephone Co. v. DethardingCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1906
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