Clare v. Sacramento Electric Power & Light Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County and. from an order denying a new trial. A. C. Hinkson, Trial Judge; J. W. Hughes, Judge denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of coming in contact with a wire used by the defendant to sustain one of the poles by which its trolley wire is supported and which had been so negligently placed that when the plaintiff came in contact with the wire he received a current of electricity with which it had become charged, and was thereby permanently injured. The cause was tried by a jury, and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of two thousand dollars.
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