Randall v. Northwestern Telegraph Co.

This action was brought by Thomas E. Ban-dall, in his lifetime, to recover damages for an injury occasioned, as he alleges, by the carelessness and negligence of the appellant company in not keeping in proper repair their telegraph line in the county of Chippewa. The complaint avers that, by reason of such carelessness and negligence, the wire of said line became loosened from the poles and fell across a public highway in the town of La Fayette, in said county; and that, while the said Bandall was traveling along said highway with his horses and carriage, without any fault on his part, his…