Pressley v. Bloomington & Normal Railway & Light Co.

John W. Pressley, an employee of the city of Blootn- ■ ington, was killed on October 26, 1907, while trimming a, street lamp, his death resulting from a shock received frorp., an electric current passing over the wires with which -the., lamp was connected. The lamp was a part of the lighting - system owned by the city of Bloomington. No electric cur- ■ rent was being generated by the city’s plant at the-time of the accident, but the current which caused the death of > Pressley was transmitted to the city’s wires by the falling of a telephone wire across the city’s wires and a 2200-volt wire…