Glander v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. C, Eschweiler, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for the •death of her husband, who was a fireman of the city of Milwaukee. Death resulted from grasping a guy wire charged with electricity. The wire in question had become broken or detached, and hung suspended about eighteen inches distant from a wooden pole. It reached within five or six feet of the ground.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. C, Eschweiler, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for the •death of her husband, who was a fireman of the city of Milwaukee. Death resulted from grasping a guy wire charged with electricity. The wire in question had become broken or detached, and hung suspended about eighteen inches distant from a wooden pole. It reached within five or six feet of the ground. The wire in swaying back and forth from the wind periodically touched the pole. The contact resulted in the emission of sparks from the wire…
1Opinion of the CourtBabNEs, J.
The essential facts are embodied in the foregoing statement. It would almost seem that1 it was obviously dangerous to the deceased, a man nearly twenty-six years of age who had passed a civil service examination, to take hold of this bare wire with his bare hand under the circumstances which were known to him. It was constantly throwing out significant danger signals. Be this as it may, he was warned to keep away and to keep others away from the pole and wire, because it' was dangerous to come near them. Counsel argue that the captain’s warning related to the pole and not to the wire. This we…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Billington v. Eastern Wisconsin Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
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