Memphis Consolidated Gas & Electric Co. v. Speers
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County. — J. S. Galloway, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Beard
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
The evidence in this case tends very strongly to show that the horse of defendant in error was killed by an electric shock, while standing hitched to a post in front of the business house of one Roberts in Memphis. This post supported an illuminated.sign, used by Roberts to advertise his business. The sign was lighted by electricity, which passed to it through wires which were in-cased in a lead pipe. These wires were an extension of those in Roberts’ house.
*85In bitching, the defendant in error threw a small steel chain around the post and fastened its two…
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