Tennyson v. Keef

The plaintiff commenced this suit in the Boone Circuit Court, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the appellant and others. It is alleged that the. defendant stretched, or caused to be carried and' stretched, directly across the public highway, the principal street through the town, a strand of insulated wire, well knowing that said highway was a public thoroughfare, and not regarding their duty in that behalf, 'and without due and proper care towards the public and the plaintiff; that they stretched or caused to be stretched the wire at a low and dangerous and unlawful…