Seith v. Commonwealth Electric Co.

The appellee, Albert Seith, brought this action on the case in the circuit court of Cook county against the appellant, Commonwealth Electric Company. The declaration in various counts charged the defendant with a failure to use ordinary care to guard, protect and maintain a wire used for the transmission of electricity over a public sidewalk in the city of Chicago, and using wire that was frail and weak, and allowing the insulation to become worn, and negligently allowing the wire to come in contact with another electric wire, causing it to break and one end to fall upon the sidewalk. It was…