Harroun v. Brush Electric Light Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brush Electric Light Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs,, •entered, in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the . 29th day of May, 1895, upon tlje verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Monroe Circuit, and also, from an order entered in said ■clerk’s office on the 24tli day of May, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the CourtFollett, J.
This action was begun January 7, 1895, to recover damagés occasioned by the death of the plaintiffs’ intestate, caused, it is alleged, By the negligence of the defendant.
In 1894 the defendant was engaged in lighting by electricity the *127streets, dwellings and places of business in the city of Rochester and in supplying electrical power. For two years before his death, which occurred September 11, 1894, Fred J. ITarroun, plaintiffs’ intestate, had been employed as a lamp trimmer. About fifteen minutes after seven o’clock in the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 1894, while engaged in trimming a…
2Cited by1 opinion
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