Prince v. Lowell Electric Light Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Calvin Fletcher Prince, under R. L. e. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, e. 375). against the Lowell Electric Light Corporation for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by a shock of electricity from contact with a live wire of the defendant which had become broken by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant’s agents or servants, on August 4, 1907, near the corner of Middlesex Street and Dartmouth Street in the…
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Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Calvin Fletcher Prince, under R. L. e. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, e. 375). against the Lowell Electric Light Corporation for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by a shock of electricity from contact with a live wire of the defendant which had become broken by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant’s agents or servants, on August 4, 1907, near the corner of Middlesex Street and Dartmouth Street in the town of Chelmsford. Writ dated September 25, 1907. In the Superior Court the case was tried before King, J. The evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
This is an action of tort brought under R. L. c. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, c. 375, to recover damages for the death of Calvin Fletcher Prince, the plaintiff’s intestate, who lost his life by a shock of electricity from contact with one of the defendant’s wires, which carried at the time nearly twenty-three hundred volts. The record is silent as to the defendant’s *279negligence, with the exception of a minor question as to the admission of evidence, and the principal question for decision arises upon the refusal to give the defendant’s request, that “ there was no evidence sufficient to…
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