Jaworski v. Detroit Edison Co.

Agnes Jaworski, as administratrix of her son’s estate, recovered judgment in the Wayne circuit court against defendant for its negligence in causing the boy’s death. Defendant is a public service corporation engaged in the business of furnishing electric light and power to the people of Detroit and vicinity. It has a franchise from the city of Detroit, which permits it to erect poles and string wires thereon to convey its product. Being desirous of erecting some new poles in the vicinity of Orleans street and Garfield avenue, it deposited three poles side by side on the grass plat between the…