Legal Opinion
Soule v. Massachusetts Electric Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 4, 1979Published
1Opinion of the Court
378 Mass. 177 (1979)
390 N.E.2d 716
PHILIP SOULE
vs.
MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY & another.[1]
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.
February 7, 1979.
June 4, 1979.
Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.
Sanford A. Kowal for the plaintiff.
Philip W. Riley (Peter C. Kober with him) for the defendants.
QUIRICO, J.
In 1954, when the plaintiff was eight years old, he climbed up to an electric power substation controlled and operated by the defendant's[2] predecessor Weymouth Light and Power Company, and was severely injured by coming into contact with a 13,800…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Railroad Co. v. StoutSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Mounsey v. EllardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Poirier v. Town of PlymouthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Whitney v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Boston Housing Authority v. HemingwayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
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