Eaton v. Consumers Power Co.

This is an appeal from the Genesee circuit court where, in an action to recover damages for personal injuries, judgment was entered for the plaintiff on a verdict for $5,000.

The defendant owns a power line along a highway east of the city of Flint, Michigan. At the point of the accident it stretched three electric wires from a pole on the north side of the highway to a residence on the south side. The plaintiff was driving a truck load of baled hay. As he passed under the wires one. of them caught on the top of the load, broke loose, and struck him in the face, causing severe injuries which…