Anderson v. Jersey City Electric Light Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On demurrer to the declaration. The second count of the declaration is as follows: “Also for that whereas the said defendant, the Jersey City Electric Light Company, heretofore, to wit, on the twenty-fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ivas the owner and did operate, manage and control a certain electric light and' power plant with its machinery, poles, wires and appliances in the city of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson aforesaid.
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On demurrer to the declaration. The second count of the declaration is as follows: “Also for that whereas the said defendant, the Jersey City Electric Light Company, heretofore, to wit, on the twenty-fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ivas the owner and did operate, manage and control a certain electric light and' power plant with its machinery, poles, wires and appliances in the city of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson aforesaid. “And whereas the said defendant, on the day and year aforesaid, in the city of Jersey City, in the pursuit of its said business, had the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
The second count of the declaration, to which a general demurrer has been filed, is, in my opinion, good; it sets out facts from which a duty arose from the defendant to the plaintiff and negatives the performance of that duty. In fine, the demurrer establishes this state of facts, viz., that the defendant used for its purposes wires that it had placed in a light shaft where it knew that the class of laborers to which the plaintiff belonged would enter to work; that these wires were under the control and management of the defendant who…
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