Curtiss v. Reaume

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The widow of John M. Curtiss brought this action to recover for his death caused by contact with one of the defendant’s electric wires. The essential charge was that the defendant, who owns and operates the electric-light plant at Ellsworth, negligently failed to protect and insulate the wires, carelessly failed to guard them where they crossed the street and sidewalks and to insulate and protect them at points of contact with trees and branches. That a wire became burned, broken and disconnected about thirty feet north of the sidewalk on…