McGilvery v. Newark Electric Light & Power Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The cause of the death of the plaintiff’s intestate’ was a current of electricity passed by the defendant company through the wires of its electric light system. The plaintiff’s allegation is that such transmission was, under the circumstances, a negligent act. The facts proved are that one of the fellow-servants of the deceased let the heavy feed-wire of the traction company fall upon a wire of the electric light company, breaking it and bringing it down to the street; that another co-employe touched the naked end of this wire to a…