Commonwealth Electric Co. v. Rooney

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee and against appellant for the sum of $30,000. The declaration, as amended, contains four counts, but the court instructed the jury to disregard the second, third and fourth counts and the case went to the jury on the first count only. The appellant pleaded the general issue. In the first count it is averred, in substance, as follows: The defendant was a corporation and possessed and owned certain wires strung on poles, etc., and used by it in carrying on the business of illumination by electric lights, and had erected one of said poles at…