Butler v. Jersey Coast News Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lloyd, J.

The appeal in this case is by the Jersey Coast News Company from a judgment rendered against it at the suit of the plaintiff for injuries received through coming in contact with a charged electric light wire which it was alleged was caused to fall into the highway as a result of the negligence of the appellant’s driver.

The story as told by the plaintiff was that he was driving north on the public highway between Laurelton and Point Pleasant in Ocean county. Defendant’s truck, also driving north, passed him at a speed of fifty to sixty miles an…