Curcuru v. Peninsular Electric Light Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Michigan; John M. Killits and Arthur J. Tuttle, Judges. Action by Gaetano Curcuru, administrator of the estate of Vincenzo Curcuru, deceased, against the Peninsular Electric Eight Company, a Michigan corporation. There was a judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALTER EVANS, District Judge.
Vincenzo Curcuru, 25 years old, and a subject of the king of Italy, came to the United States and settled in Detroit, Mich., in 1912. At the time of his death he was employed by Jackson & Maurice Company, a firm which was constructing a two-story cement building on a lot on the northwest corner of North Grand boulevard and Hastings street in that city. While thus employed, on the 28th day of March, 1914, Curcuru was instantly killed upon coming in too close proximity to the electric wires of the defendant in error, and which wires, at least 10 years before that…
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