Lynchburg Telephone Co. v. Booker
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. Upon the trial of the case, the defendant in error asked for nine instructions, to all of which but two the plantiff in error objected; and the plaintiff in error asked for ten instructions, to all of which the defendant in error objected; “and thereupon the court gave the jury” the twelve instructions set forth below as “instructions given by the court,” to all' of which except the sixth,…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant in error, a little boy eight years of age, was sitting upon a box on the sidewalk of one of the streets in the city of Lynchburg, when, seeing what he supposed to be a string dangling down through the limbs oí a tree in an adjacent yard, he put out his hand and grasped it. It proved to be an electric wire belonging to the Lynchburg Telephone *604Company, which had broken and fallen upon a hook of the Lynchburg Traction <fc Light Company, and by that means came in contact with a wire of the latter company heavily charged with electricity.…
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