McNamee v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Western Union Telegraph Company, from a judgment of the Supreme- Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 23d day of March, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of March, 1910, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
Plaintiff’s intestate was killed by an electric shock communicated to him through a wire of the defendant which fell upon Clark avenue, Far Rockaway, crossing a high voltage wire of the Queens Borough Gas and Electric Company and the story of the accident is briefly as follows: An express wagon of the Long Island Railroad Company was being driven along Clark avenue by one Cronin in the early evening of a rainy night when the horse came in contact with a wire of the defendant, which had crossed the high voltage wire mentioned above. The horse was knocked down, and the wagon, a…
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