Dierks Lumber & Coal Co. v. Brown

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Defendant in error was plaintiff, and plaintiff in error was defendant, in the trial court. The parties will be so designated here.

The action was commenced in the state court of Arkansas and removed to the federal court. The original complaint charged that plaintiff was injured, while in her father’s store in the town of Dierks, by reason of a shock from *an excessive current of electricity when she attempted to turn on the same for the purpose of operating a sewing machine, and that defendant was negligent in operating its lighting plant, in “that it had negligently…