Hayes v. Chicago Telephone Co.

This was a suit brought by appellant, against the city of Chicago and the Chicago Telephone Company, in the superior court of Cook county, to recover damages for negligently causing the death of Charles Anderson, appellant’s intestate.

The declaration charged, in substance, that the defendants were possessed of and using certain telephone poles and wires in a public alley in the city of Chicago; that there were near said telephone poles and wires, other poles and wires, which wires were highly charged with electricity; that the said defendants negligently suffered one of said telephone wires…