McCaughna v. Owosso & Corunna Electric Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Shiawassee; Smith, J. Case by George B. McCaughna, administrator of the estate of John Young, deceased, against the Owosso & Corunna Electric Company, for negligently causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This is an action for negligently causing the death of the intestate. The declaration avers that the defendant maintained a large number of electric 'wires in the city of Owosso, one of which was located near the south bank of the Shiawassee river and north of the Ann Arbor Railroad, near a brick building known as the “Old Electric Power House,” and was fastened to a pole 30 feet high; that, in order to hold said pole in position, said defendant had placed a guy wire connected with said pole at the top, and running southwesterly, fastened at the top of a post 5 or 6 feet high, and that the…
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