Valcour v. Village of Morrisville

This case has been here before. See 108 Vt. 242, 184 Atl. 881. Petitionee is a municipal corporation and operates an electric utility within the corporation limits and distributes and sells electric energy outside these limits. The petitioner owns and resides upon a farm in Stowe not far from petitionee’s high tension line conveying current to the electrical department of the village of Stowe. Prior to August 10, 1930, the petitionee was delivering current to said farm. On that date the barn upon said farm was destroyed by a fire, which was attributed to the negligence of the petitionee in…