Dixon v. Bausman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This is a case of personal injury sustained by the plaintiff, while in the employ of the defendant, by the breaking of a trolley wire which he was attempting to draw into position by means of a block and tackle. The span wire, which stretched from poles on the side of the street to the trolley wire, had become unfastened from the trolley wire at a curve, in consequence of which the trolley wire had sagged, while the span wire had fallen upon the ground. It was in pulling the trolley wire out to its proper place so that the span wire might…