Vanderflute v. Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.

— This is an action against the Portland Bailway, Light & Power Company and George Wiener, to recover damages for personal injury suffered by the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant railway company. His duty in connection with another employee who was his foreman was to assist in testing the electric voltage of street-car tracks in the City of Portland! The foreman had a voltmeter which he attached to hydrants standing within the curb line near the street pavement, and it was the duty of the plaintiff to take a wire attached both to the voltmeter and to a stick about the size of an…