Colorado Springs Electric Co. v. Soper

At the time of the injury complained of, plaintiff was a child five years of age. The defendant was a corporation-engaged in operating an electric plant in the city of Colorado Springs, used for the purpose of generating and transmitting electricity. It appears that, previous to the injury, a barbed wire had been stretched along the tops of the poles used by-defendant. It had broken at a point west of where the accident occurred, and remained attached to the poles to- the east. The loose end hung down through or across the other wires 'of defendant, and crossed a span wire of the street…