Macon v. Paducah St. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 77 — Action to Recover Damages for Personal Injuries— APPEAL FROM M’CHACHEN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff for Only a Part of the Sum He Claims and He Appeals. Willie Macon, a small negro boy, was sent by his mother on some errand to a neighbor’s house.
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Case 77 — Action to Recover Damages for Personal Injuries— APPEAL FROM M’CHACHEN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff for Only a Part of the Sum He Claims and He Appeals. Willie Macon, a small negro boy, was sent by his mother on some errand to a neighbor’s house. He had to pass along Sixth street towards Norton in the city of Paducah, and about forty 'feet from the corner of Sixth and Norton, he came to a loose wire, which seems to have been attached to one of defendant’s wires, either a guy wire or an electric railway wire, and was permitted to hang down near the sidewalk on Sixth street.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion oe the court by
JUDGE GUFFY
Reversing.
•Tbis ¡action was instituted by the appellant against the appellees, Paducah -Street Railway Company and Paducah Electric Light Company, to recover damages for injury sustained by the gross negligence, of the defendant's. The substance of the negligence complained of is: That the defendants had established various posts and overhead wires along and over the streets of the city of Paducah, and were engaged in furnishing electric power to run and operate a street railway in ¡said city, and to furnish lights to the inhabitants thereof. That about April…
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