Burrows v. Livingston-Niagara Power Co.

Plaintiff’s intestate, Marvin A. Burrows, was engaged in removing boards and refuse from a loft above the third floor of the “ mill building ” of the Ebsary Gypsum Company. He ran an iron rod over twenty-five feet long through a broken pane in an upper window in one end of this building, causing the rod to touch a heavily charged power wire which had been strung by defendant several feet from the Wall of the building and over fifteen feet from the window in question. Decedent was instantly killed.

This charged wire was not strung near a dwelling or a business plant or any building in which the…