Edwards v. Cumberland County Power & Light Co.

Two actions were tried together and resulted in verdicts for the plaintiffs for loss of a house and its contents, by fire, and defendant brings the case up on motion and exceptions.

The defendant is a public service corporation, at the time of the fire engaged in the business of transmitting over its wires, upon poles exclusively used by it, electric current for light and power.

The poles in the vicinity of the house that was burned were maintained on the easterly side of the highway leading from Bidde-ford to Biddeford Pool. The house stood some seventy-five feet back from the highway and on…