Rice v. . Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered June 15, 1916, which affirmed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the complaint which alleged that on March 20, 1913, Charles Rice, while in the employ of the defendant and as a result of its negligence, was killed in the city of Rochester by taking hold of a wire which was in contact with a high voltage wire of the…
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered June 15, 1916, which affirmed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the complaint which alleged that on March 20, 1913, Charles Rice, while in the employ of the defendant and as a result of its negligence, was killed in the city of Rochester by taking hold of a wire which was in contact with a high voltage wire of the Rochester Railway and Light Company; that the decedent left his father, the plaintiff in this action, as his sole next of…
1Opinion of the Court
Order affirmed, with costs; first and third questions certified answered in the affirmative; second question in the negative; no opinion.
Concur: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Ouddeback, Hogan, Cardozo and Pound, JJ.
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