Holland v. Wisconsin Michigan Power Co.

In August, 1938, at Iron Mountain, defendant company had, on private property, an unin-closed storage yard for poles used in maintenance and extension of its utility distributing system. Tbe poles were piled on skids to a height of about eight feet and to a considerable length.

The afternoon of August 24, 1938, plaintiff, then aged nine years and three months, in company with a girl about two years older, climbed upon one of the piles, traversed its length and, when near the end of the pile, a pole back of them rolled down, threw them to the ground, and seriously injured plaintiff.

Claiming the…