Jordan v. Adams Gas Light Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the executor of the estate of Everett Forbes, late of Adams, against the Adams Gas Light Company, a corporation operating a system of electric street lights in the town of Adams, for negligently causing the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff’s intestate by injuries sustained by him on April 12,1917, by his coming in contact with' a loose wire of the defendant highly charged with electricity hanging from a pole of the defendant at the corner of Mill Street…
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Tort by the executor of the estate of Everett Forbes, late of Adams, against the Adams Gas Light Company, a corporation operating a system of electric street lights in the town of Adams, for negligently causing the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff’s intestate by injuries sustained by him on April 12,1917, by his coming in contact with' a loose wire of the defendant highly charged with electricity hanging from a pole of the defendant at the corner of Mill Street and Allen Street in Adams. Writ dated June 25, 1917. The first count of the declaration was for conscious suffering of…
1Opinion of the CourtRhgg, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the conscious suffering and death of his intestate, a boy about twelve years of age. There was evidence tending to show that, at a little before ten o’clock on an April evening in 1917, he left a woman neighbor at her door. A short time afterwards he was heard whistling as he returned by her house. A few moments later from a window she saw a “kind of a flash” from the direction of a street corner nearby. Others testified to seeing the flash of light. The boy presently was found lying on his face on the ground “with his arms all spread out and his…
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