St. Louis v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for damages for the death of the plaintiff’s horse and the breaking of his wagon, alleged to have been caused by a current of electricity from the defendant’s street railway track on Broadway in Lawrence. Writ in the Police Court in Lawrence, dated December 19, 1911. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Bell, J. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Tort for damages for the death of the plaintiff’s horse and the breaking of his wagon, alleged to have been caused by a current of electricity from the defendant’s street railway track on Broadway in Lawrence. Writ in the Police Court in Lawrence, dated December 19, 1911. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Bell, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the clpse of the evidence the judge ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, ordered a verdict for the defendant and reported the case for determination by this court, with the stipulation that, if the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action to recover for the alleged electrocution of the plaintiff’s horse. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant operated an electric street railway system, wherein the electric current was transmitted from the trolley wire down wires in the sides of the car to the motors, thence to the controller, and then to the rail, through which it ran back to the power house. There was a high voltage of electricity in the trolley wire which would be fatal to animal life exposed to its force, but in the rail the electric current was dead unless there was-some defect. As the…
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