Pike v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

In an action to recover damages for wrongful death, defendant Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., appeals from a judgment against it and in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict of the jury, in the sum of $165,000. Plaintiff’s intestate was electrocuted when a cable running from an eighty-foot boom of a crane being used to unload steel from a truck owned by the nonappealing defendants came into contact with an overhead electric wire, owned and maintained by appellant, carrying a current of 2,400 volts, about thirty-four feet above the sidewalk. It was plaintiff’s claim, and…