McAdam v. Central Railway & Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard in damages to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff to recover $1,200 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The defendant corporation maintained in the city of New Britain an electrical plant with two separate branches, one for operating an electric street railway under the overhead trolley plan, and the other for furnishing electric lights. The plaintiff was a lineman employed in the electric light department. It was a part of his duty, when *446specially directed, to make some changes in the lines of the railway department. He had been specially directed to ascend a pole used in connection with the railway, for the purpose of removing a telephone wire fastened to the top of the pole and used by the…
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