Walter v. Baltimore Electric Co.

Schmucker J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question presented by this appeal is a narrow one. It is wdiether the fact, that a wire of an electric lighting company strung over the public street of a city fell upon and injured a person passing along the street, of itself affords sufficient prima facie proof of negligence on the part of the com- party to east upon it the burden of overcoming that presumption.

There is evidence in the record, which for the purpose of this inquiry must be taken to be true, that as the equitable plaintiff, a boy eight years old, was passing along Harford…