Bynum v. City of Monroe

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

Plaintiff brings suit against the City of Monroe to recover damages for permanent injury and disability alleged to have been caused from high voltage of electricity entering her body as she pressed one of the standard signal buttons on defendant’s trolley car in which she was riding as a paid passenger. She charges that the accident was due to defects in the electrical wiring of said button, of which she was unaware; and that said defective wiring resulted in producing a short circuit, which would expose any one to shock who attempted to use the button. She further charges…