Weissert v. City of Escanaba

The plaintiff herein was awarded a verdict by a jury against the city of Escanaba in the Delta county circuit court as damages for personal injuries received by him when he took hold of an electric light wire of defendant’s system on September 12, 1936. At this time plaintiff was 12 years of age.

For reasons which will hereinafter be disclosed, we are adopting the evidence offered by plaintiff, together with some of the undisputed evidence of defendant, as a statement of facts which were before the court and jury upon the trial of the issues here involved and which are to control us in the…