Hayes v. Inhabitants of Hyde Park

This is an action to recover damages for perspnal injuries alleged to have been caused by a defect in the highway. The alleged defect was a telephone wire which sloped down from a house to which it was fastened, and lay across the highway. Whether the wire was broken before the time of the accident, or whether it still was attached on the other side of the way to another house five or six hundred feet away from the one first mentioned, is not very clear, and is not material. The only support which there had been between these two points was a bracket on a pole (in the road, as we understand),…