Stark v. Badger Public Service Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sheboy-gan county: Michael Kirwan, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injury resulting in death by coming in contact with an electric light fixture. The defendant furnished light service to the plaintiff at his summer resort at Crystal Lake. The primary service wires carried a voltage of 2,300 to a transformer placed on a pole on plaintiff’s premises.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sheboy-gan county: Michael Kirwan, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injury resulting in death by coming in contact with an electric light fixture. The defendant furnished light service to the plaintiff at his summer resort at Crystal Lake. The primary service wires carried a voltage of 2,300 to a transformer placed on a pole on plaintiff’s premises. From this pole, after passing through a meter, service wires carrying 110 volts were strung to the various buildings of the plaintiff. Some of these were strung parallel to and on the same poles…
1Opinion of the CourtViNjE, C. J.
The controversy in this case centers upon the question whether the evidence shows that the deceased was killed by a voltage of 110 or by a voltage in excess of that, owing to the defective condition of defendant’s wiring. If the voltage was normal, i. e. 110, then there is no liability on the part of the defendant because that is the voltage it was required to furnish. If there was a voltage considerably in excess of that reaching the deceased, it would be liable because such excess could be produced only by reason of the defective condition of defendant’s appliances. There is a sharp…
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