Moriarity v. Hickam
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Monroe Circuit Court; Robert W. Miers, Judge. Action by Willis Hickam and others against John A. Moriarity, as receiver of the Central Union Telephone Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtNichols, J.
This appeal is from a judgment recovered by appellees against appellant, in an action in which appellant is charged with negligently constructing and maintaining a service wire of the Central Union Telephone Company, extending from its main line to appellees’ garage, so as to allow it to come in contact with a high-voltage wire of the Spencer Electric Light, Power, Heat and Water Company, and also to come in contact with a metal roof of appellees’ garage, thereby negligently transmitting the current from its main wire and from the wire of the lighting company to such metal roof, and thence to…
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