Dunn v. Cavanaugh
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Action by James M. Cavanaugh, administrator, against George W. Dunn and others, receivers. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The defendants contracted with one Proctor to paint the power house, a corrugated iron building, through the front of which two parallel rows of uninsulated high tension wires about 10 feet apart issued to crossbars on telegraph poles. Proctor subcontracted to the plaintiff, who, in turn, employed his son, the decedent, to assist him in doing the work. The decedent painted the space between these two rows of wires from a boatswain’s chair hung from the roof, which he pulled to one or the other side of the perpendicular by means of drift lines fastened on the opposite…
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