Merlo v. Public Service Co.

Plaintiffs, as administratrices of the estates of their deceased husbands, brought an action under the Injuries Act to recover for their wrongful deaths, the two men having been electrocuted April 15, 1936, while at work in the construction of a sewer in the Village of ■Maywood, Illinois. Defendant, the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, a corporation, was charged with negligence in the maintenance of a line of wires 'carrying a high voltage of electricity along Oak street, -in Maywood, where the sewer was being constructed; and defendant Charles M. Porter Company, a corporation,…