Phares v. Century Electric Co.

This is an action for personal injuries, alleged to have been caused by an electric shock. Plaintiff claimed to have been shocked while carrying out an order of his foreman to put an electrode in an electric furnace without turning off the power in the furnace next to it. Plaintiff obtained a verdict for $9,500, and from the judgment entered thereon, defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff's evidence was that he was injured, September, 1926, while working as a furnace tender in defendant's foundry. He had commenced work there in January, 1925, and worked about a year as a moulder's helper. He was…