Butterfield v. Community Light & Power Co.

This is an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, a boy of the age of 10 years seven months, caused, it is alleged, by the wrongful act of the defendant. The next of kin, for whose benefit the action was brought are the plaintiff and his wife Margaret, parents of the deceased. Verdict and judgment were for the plaintiff in the sum of $6500. and the case is here on the defendant’s exceptions.

It appears that on May 22, 1945, a line of poles extended along the highway upon which the plaintiff’s premises abutted. Upon the plaintiff’s land and a short distance from…