Conrad v. Springfield Consolidated Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon, county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers
On August 21, 1906, James T. Conrad was employed as a lineman by the Central Union Telephone Company. On that day he was engaged in taking down and putting up telephone wires on a telephone pole at the corner of Sixth and Monroe streets, in the city of Springfield, and while so engaged an old telephone wire which he was handling broke and fell upon a trolley wire belonging to the Springfield Consolidated Railway Company, carrying a high voltage of electricity, which was thereby communicated to his person, causing severe personal injuries. In an action on the case against the street railway…
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