Garretson v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co.

Citations

• 50 Wash. 24
• 96 P. 511
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 657

Syllabus

<p>Electricity — Actions for Injuries — Snop — Evidence — Sufficiency. There is sufficient evidence that a street car company’s trolley wire carried an electric current, and that it was the source of a shock to the plaintiff, where it appears that the company was operating .street cars in the city by electricity conveyed to the cars by trolley, that wires without insulation connected the trolley with a lamp wire handled by the plaintiff at a certain street corner, and that plaintiff received an electric shock while handling the lamp wire, shortly after a trolley car had passed that point, although there was conjectural evidence that the shock may have come from some other source.</p> <p>Trial — Questions for Jury. The preponderance of conflicting evidence is a question for the jury.</p> <p>Electricity — Negligence—Evidence—Sufficiency. A street car company is liable to a city employee, a lamp trimmer, for injuries caused by tbe fact that its guy wire had been negligently changed by city employees from the company’s pole to a city pole, making the trimmer’s work dangerous, where, after such change, the company took down the wire and replaced it in the same situation without proper insulation.</p>