Bennett v. New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Co.

In the course of excavation upon a sewer projpct in the city of New York the boom attached to a caterpillar crane moved close enough to one of defendant’s overhead high voltage wires to produce a short circuit which electrocuted plaintiff’s intestate. By the present action damages are sought by the decedent’s widow, as administratrix, who claims her husband’s death was caused by the defendant’s negligence in the operation and maintenance of its high tension electric lines.

A judgment in plaintiff’s favor entered upon a jury’s verdict at Trial Term has been reversed on the law at the Appellate…