Quincy Gas & Electric Co. v. Bauman

Mr. Presiding Justice Wright

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellee, a boy of eleven years of age, recovered by the verdict of a jury in this case, $10,000 against appellant, for negligence in maintaining an electric wire on Adams street in Quincy in an unsafe manner, so that it fell while charged with an electric current of 2,000 volts, and remained upon the street, where appellee came in contact with it and was there injured. The court overruled appellant’s motion for a new trial and gave judgment against it upon the verdict, and to reverse the judgment appellant has brought this appeal…