Manley v. New York Telephone Co.

In this action to recover damages for a paralysis of his right side, plaintiff alleged in his complaint that while removing a telephone receiver in Schroon Lake, New York, he “ received a violent charge of electricity which knocked [him] down on the floor ” as the result of defendant’s negligence. In his bill of particulars, he charged that a circuit in the city of Glens Falls connecting with the Schroon Lake telephone line was improperly wired, and was in close proximity to a power line, and poorly insulated. His counsel in his opening statement asserted he would show that while plaintiff at…