Little v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
for the recovery of damages arising from the destruction of a spring of water on the farm of the plaintiff in Mill Creek Hundred, alleged to have been caused by the defendant company in negligently and unnecessarily using dynamite or other explosive in making a hole near said spring for the purpose of settling one of its telephone poles.
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This action was brought by William F. Little, who has since died, against the American Telephone - and Telegraph Company, a corporation of this State, for the recovery of damages which-it is alleged he suffered by reason of the negligence of the said company.
Since the death of the original plaintiff, his administrator, William G. Little, has been made party plaintiff, and is entitled to recover in this action whatever the said William F. Little could have recovered.
The said William F. Little, it is claimed, was the owner *376of a farm…
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- New Albany & Salem Railroad v. PetersonIndiana Supreme Court · 1860
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