United Electric Light & Power Co. v. State Ex Rel. Lusby
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Harlan, C. J.) Defendants ist Prayer. — That there is no evidence in this case legally sufficient to show that this defendant was guilty of any negligence by reason of either the breakage of the telephone- wire mentioned in the evidence or by reason of said wires remaining broken and suspended as mentioned in the evidence from the time of the breakage until the time of the accident.
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Harlan, C. J.) Defendants ist Prayer. — That there is no evidence in this case legally sufficient to show that this defendant was guilty of any negligence by reason of either the breakage of the telephone- wire mentioned in the evidence or by reason of said wires remaining broken and suspended as mentioned in the evidence from the time of the breakage until the time of the accident. (Refused1) Defendants 2nd Prayer. — That if the jury shall find that the accident complained of was caused by a broken wire, not the property of this company, falling across…
1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.
This suit was brought on the 2nd day of December, 1902, in the Baltimore City. Court, in the name of the State for the use of Barbara Lusby, widow, and Henry I. Lusby, infant child, against the appellant and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City, to recover damages for the death of Harry H. Lusby, husband and father of the equitable plaintiffs, which is alleged to have been caused by contact with an electric wire charged with electricity at the corner of Fremont avenue and Portland street, Baltimore.
The declaration states that his death was occasioned by the…
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