Rosenstein v. Fair Haven & Westville Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actions to recover damages for injuries caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant in allowing electricity to escape from its trolley wires into the highway, brought to the City Court of New Haven and tried together to the jury before Dow, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in each case, and appeal- by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
These two cases arose out of the same occurrence and were tried together. The plaintiffs claimed to have proven that .the plaintiff in the first case, a member of the copartnership plaintiff in the second, was driving with a horse, wagon .and harness belonging to said copartnership, through one of the streets of New Haven through which the defendant operates a double-track, overhead electric trolley line, when, approaching 'the curb, the horse stepped into a pool of water and thereby became, shocked with electricity which was escaping from the defendant’s wires and iron poles used in…
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