Hyre v. Brown

Lively, Judge:

This writ of error is to a judgment on a verdict of $5,500.00 in favor of plaintiff against the Town of Ravenswood for the death of plaintiff’s intestate caus'ed by the alleged negligence of defendant in the operation of its municipal electric lighting plant.

Anderson, about 19 years old, plaintiff’s intestate, had left Ravenswood about 7 o’clock A. M. December 12, 1922, riding a brown mare and leading a bay horse by a halter, going to his work with road construction contractors as a teamster. Shortly afterwards he was found dead in the public road, lying with his' face partly…