Laurel Light & Ry. Co. v. Jones

The appellee was plaintiff in the court below and sued the appellant for personal injuries and recovered a verdict of Jen thousand dollars. The appellant owns *153and operates a street car system in Laurel, Miss., and an interurban line from Laurel to Ellisville, and its cars run from Laurel to Ellisville and are operated by electricity generated at a power plant in Laurel, Miss. In-operating its line to and through Ellisville, appellant uses not only the trolley wire but also a feed wire of approximately the same size of the trolly wire and carries about tire same voltage. This feed wire is…