Gloucester Electric Co. v. Kankas

Citations

• 120 F. 490
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 4502

Syllabus

<p>4. Negligence — Action for Injury by Electric Wire — Evidence of Condition after Injury.</p> <p>In an action to recover for a personal injury to plaintiff caused by her hand coming in contact with an electric wire maintained by defendant, the insulation of which was defective, it was shown that the wire was not broken from its supports by the strain put upon it at the time of the accident, and there was evidence which justified the inference that it was not materially stretched or changed in position. Meld, that the testimony of a witness as to the height of the wire above the place on which plaintiff was walking, five or ten minutes after the injury, was competent as tending to show its position at the time of the injury, and as bearing upon the question whether it was so placed, as to unreasonably and negligently expose people to danger.</p>