Swaczyk v. Detroit Edison Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment for $6,500 rendered against it in this action of tort for the death on March 21, 1917, of plaintiff’s son, Stanley Swaczyk, a boy 13 years of age, caused by his coming in contact with a live service wire of defendant lying on the ground in a vacant lot on the west side of Russell street between Medbury and Palmer avenues, in the city of Detroit. The wire extended from an electric light pole in an alley at the back of the lot to an idle lunch wagon which had stood when in use at the sidewalk line on Russell street but at the time of the accident had been moved…