Brunelle v. Lowell Electric Light Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the proprietor of an apothecary shop on East Merrimack Street in Lowell' against a corporation maintaining an electric light plant in Lowell and furnishing electricity for light, heat and power, for personal injuries from a shock of electricity received when taking hold of a portable cord to carry an electric lamp to a part of the cellar under the plaintiff’s shop.
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Tort by the proprietor of an apothecary shop on East Merrimack Street in Lowell' against a corporation maintaining an electric light plant in Lowell and furnishing electricity for light, heat and power, for personal injuries from a shock of electricity received when taking hold of a portable cord to carry an electric lamp to a part of the cellar under the plaintiff’s shop. Writ dated December 7, 1903. At the trial in the Superior Court before Wait, J. it appeared that the portable cord was installed in the cellar in the manner described in the opinion. On October 12, 1903, the plaintiff went…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
In 1893 the plaintiff began the use of electricity for lighting his store upon the ground floor, and such use was continued until January 13,1903, when it was stopped until May 13, 1903, when it was renewed under the contract of that date. In May, 1902, the plaintiff made an extension of his wiring into the cellar of his store. A wire was attached to the inside wiring belonging to the plaintiff, near a door leading into the cellar, and was extended, in the form of a flexible cord about fifteen feet long, into the cellar. At the end of the cord was a lamp consisting of a socket and bulb. When…
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