Neal v. Wilmington & New Castle Electric Railway Co.

Pennewill, J.,

charging the jury:

Gentlemen of the jury:—In this case the plaintiff, William H. Neal, administrator of Harry Neal, deceased, seeks to recover from the defendant, the Wilmington and New Castle Electric Railway Company, damages for the death of said Harry Neal; which death was caused, the plaintiff alleges, by the negligence of the defendant company.

It is averred by the plaintiff that a guy wire that was connected with and formed a part of the defendant’s railway, and which served to hold the main trolley wire in position, was on the morning of November 26, 1900, found to be…