Godbey v. Grinnell Electric & Heating Co.

— The defendant is proprietor of an electric light plant at Grinnell, Iowa, and plaintiff is a resident of the same city. One of the wires of the electric lighting system is suspended on poles in fhe immediate vicinity of plaintiff’s home. -On the same poles, and above this wire, are carried several telephone wires. Plaintiff’s residence has service connection with both systems. It is the theory of the plaintiff’s case that defendant negligently maintained said wire without proper insulation or other protection against contact with other wires in that vicinity; that, by some means unknown, a…