Helgesen v. Chicago Suburban Water & Light Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Duptjy, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Chytraus
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a personal injury suit wherein plaintiff claims that he was injured by reason of negligence attributable to defendant, while in defendant’s employ as an electrical lineman. Plaintiff sustained the injury, of which he complains, through becoming the connection between the two disconnected ends of a wire carrying 1,100 volts of electricity, while he was at work upon the cross-arm of an electric wire pole. He recovered a judgment for $3,500 in a jury trial and from that judgment defendant prosecutes this appeal.
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