Western Union Telegraph Co. v. McMullen
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error. This writ of error was.sued out by the Western Union Telegraph Company to reverse a judgment entered, on the 15th of January, 1895, for $25,000, upon the verdict of a jury in a case tried in Essex County Circuit Court. The case was originally, brought in the New .Jersey Supreme Court on the 5th of July, 1894, by the plaintiff, Edward McMullen.
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On error. This writ of error was.sued out by the Western Union Telegraph Company to reverse a judgment entered, on the 15th of January, 1895, for $25,000, upon the verdict of a jury in a case tried in Essex County Circuit Court. The case was originally, brought in the New .Jersey Supreme Court on the 5th of July, 1894, by the plaintiff, Edward McMullen. In his declaration, plaintiff alleged that on the 20th of June, 1894, he was in the employ of the defendant as a lineman, whose duty it was to scale and climb certain poles of the defendant in Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey, used by…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
In June, 1893, McMullen, who was plaintiff below, was in the employment of the Western Union Telegraph Company, engaged in helping to set poles, string wires, put up cross-arms and connect wires. While in the performance of his duty and as he was about to attach a new wire, he received such a strong current of electricity from the Western Union wire that he was knocked insensible, and received most painful injuries.
The writ of error in this case is prosecuted to review the judgment recovered by McMullen below in compensation for the…
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