Kraatz v. Brush Electric Light Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne. (Brevoort, J.) Negligence case. Defendant brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The plaintiff recovered judgment in the Wayne circuit court for damages, upon the claim that he was severely and permanently injured and crippled by an electric shock while trimming lamps on an electric tower in Detroit, on August 19, 1886, at about 9 o’clock in the morning.
The plaintiff’s evidence showed that he had been working for the defendant company as a trimmer from April, 1886, up to the day of the injury. On that day he had trimmed the lamps in 12 or 13 towers before he came to the tower at the corner of Hastings and Marion (now Winder) streets. He went up this tower and trimmed *459three…
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