New York & New Jersey Telephone Co. v. Bennett

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The plaintiff, a countryman, who had driven into the town of Red Bank, stopped his horse near a drinking-fountain that stood at the intersection of Front and Broad streets, and in order to remove some wire that lay in the street between his horse and the fountain, picked it up and received through it a powerful electric current, that inflicted permanent injuries, for which he brought suit against the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, whose wire it was, and against the Atlantic Highlands, Red Bank and Long'Branch Railway Company,…