Martens v. Public Service Co.

In this case the appellee, Edward Martens, a boy about 7 years of age, by Henry Martens his next friend, sued the appellant, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, in the circuit court "of Lake county, for injuries sustained coming in contact with the electric current of appellant’s wires. The declaration charges that the appellant, a public service corporation, owns, controls and operates the electric lighting system in the City of Waukegan, and maintained on the west side of North Butrick street in that city certain wires on poles over which the appellant transmitted electricity to…