Puchlopek v. Portsmouth Power Co.

The defendant maintained a transformer station at Newmarket on an electric power line. A picket fence enclosed the station. The pickets were nailed from the outside to two rails of two by four lumber. A wire carrying high voltage and fastened to the lower rail on the inside by insulators ran along the fence for some distance to a point where it was turned to a vertical direction and ran upwards as far as or above the upper rail. The fence where the wire was thus attached was on the line of an alley leading from a public highway to land lying between the station and a schoolhouse. The decedent…