Robertson v. Rockland Light & Power Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Bruce Robertson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of January, 1917, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
Each of the defendants maintains a pole for carrying its wires on the side of the public highway known as South Broadway, in the vicinity of Berkeley Academy, which plaintiff was attending, near the village of South Nyack, in the county of Rockland. On the 12th day of July, 1912, the plaintiff and a schoolmate were climbing these poles, evidently endeavoring to see who could climb fastest or highest, and the plaintiff received, through his left hand, a current of electricity which must have come from a live wire maintained by the defendant Rockland Light and Power Company, which…
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