Sykes v. Village of Portland

The plaintiff, a married woman, brings this action to recover damages against both defendants by reason of an injury which she claims she received on April 21, 1909, at the village of Portland by an electric shock which she received in trying to rescue her son, John Sykes, Jr., a boy between nine and ten years of age, from contact with a fallen village electric light wire which caused the boy’s death.

*88Since the trial of the instant case, a former case, involving damages under the death act (3 Comp. Laws, § 10427 [3 Comp. Laws 1915, § 14577]) for the death of the son, and arising out of the…