Summerskill v. Vermont Power & Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for Negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the September Term, 1915, Franklin County, Butler, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This is an action of case for negligence. Trial was by jury and verdict and judgment were for the plaintiff. The defendant brings exceptions.
At all times material hereto defendant owned and operated an electric plant, and the plaintiff, while in its employ as a lineman, was injured by an electric current which left one of the defendant’s lines and entered the plaintiff’s body. At the close of the evidence the defendant made a motion for a verdict in its favor which, under exception, was overruled.
The grounds of the motion, so far as they pointed out anything, were first, that there was no…
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