Bice v. Wheeling Electrical Co.

Miller, President:

The plaintiff, George Bice, between sixteen and seventeen years of age, sustained severe and permanent injuries in March, 1904, by an excessive voltage of electricity from a flexible wire cord in the blacksmith shop of one Rogerson on Twenty Ninth Street in the city of Wheeling. There were five of these cords in the shop, with incandescent lights attached, dropped from the main service wire above, all served with electricity from the defendant’s main conductor carried from its plant upon poles over said street, one of which poles stood directly in front of the shop. The…