Austin v. Public Service Co.

This is a suit brought by the appellee, Ralph C. Austin, as administrator of the estate of Louis Hartel, deceased, against the appellant, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, for the benefit of the next of kin of the deceased, to recover .damages resulting from the death of Hartel, who was a bóy 13 years old, and whose death it is alleged was caused by his coming in contact with a highly charged electric wire of the appellant, while he was on a girder on Brandon bridge, a public highway bridge spanning the Des Plaines River, in the town of Joliet, in Will county. There was a trial by…