Van Alstine v. Standard Light, Heat & Power Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, -Standard Light, Heat and Power Company, of Unadilla, N. Y., .from -a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 8th day of January, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury' for $2,400, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of January, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
This is an action for negligence resulting in the death of plaintiffs’ intestate. The defendant is engaged in the business of- manufacturing and selling electric light and power in Unadilla, Sidney *59and Bainbridge, Chenango county,.N. Y. The two latter places are several miles from each other. The defendant’s power house is about one mile from Sidney and not in the same direction therefrom as Bainbridge. The electric current is transmitted from the power house to the several places mentioned by means of lines of wires maintained by defendant.
The deceased was employed by the…
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