Schulte v. the Detroit Edison Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a decision of the Wayne County Circuit Court granting defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (GCR 1963, 515.2) overturning an award granted to him by the jury of $550,000.

Hal F. Schulte, Jr., brought this action individually and as next friend of Roger A. Schulte who was injured when a long aluminum irrigation pipe, which he and two other boys were holding, contacted a 40,000-volt transmission line erected and maintained by defendant. The precise manner in which the accident occurred was not revealed at the trial because Roger, apparently suffering…