Dawson v. Lawrence Gas Light Co.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries from the fall of a pole erected by the defendant for the support of wires and an electrie arc lamp. The declaration contains two counts under the R. L. c. 106, § 71, and one at common law. While the pleadings are referred to in the bill of exceptions, no question is made in regard to them.

It appeared in evidence that the pole was of hard pine, squared, about twenty-eight feet high; and, in the spring before the accident, it had been painted by the employees of the defendant from the surface of the ground to the top. It was provided with iron…