Austin v. Public Service Co.

Ralph C. Austin, public administrator of Will county, brought this action against the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois to recover damages for the death of Louis Hertel. The declaration charged that the Public Service Company maintained a certain high tension electric wire heavily charged with electricity, upon, over and along a certain public highway in Will county, Illinois, and that it thereupon became the duty of said company to exercise reasonable care and caution and maintain the wire in such condition as not to injure persons in the use of the public highway in the exercise…