Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Ammann

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought in the District Court by Ella M. Ammann to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to be due to the negligence of the defendant in maintaining a guy wire from a telegraph pole to a peg across or in front of a footpath. One dark night, while walking from the trolley car on the public highway to her home along this path, her foot was caught in a loop formed by-some of the strands of the wire. She was thrown on her stomach across the wire, which, she says, produced a fallen colon. The case was tried once before, and at that trial the judge entered…