Union City Electric Light & Power Co. v. Jaqua

The appellee, as administrator of the estate of John A. Reed, deceased, recovered judgment against the appellant for the death of said John A. Reed, alleged to have been caused by the appellant’s negligence through his coming in contact with a wire rope used by appellant for the suspension of one of its electric lamps and for hoisting and lowering the lamp, said rope being fastened to an upright wooden pole adjoining the sidewalk of a street in Union City, within reach and touch of persons passing along the sidewalk, where the appellee’s intestate came in contact with it when it had become…