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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ida E. Dehmer, as Executrix of Henry Dehmer, Deceased, Appellant, v. New York Telephone Company et al., Respondents.
    
      Negligence —* telephone companies — occupant of vehicle struck by wire strung low over highway ■—failure of proof.
    
    
      Dehmer v. N. Y. Tel. Co., 208 Ap'p. Div. 745, affirmed.
    (Argued October 19, 1925;
    decided November 24, 1925.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 11, 1924, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s testator alleged to have been occasioned through the negligence of defendant. The complaint alleged that while plaintiff’s testator was riding on a motor truck along Fox Island road in the village of Port Chester he came in contact with one of defendant telephone company’s wires which was strung across said road, pulled from the truck and killed. It was shown that other low wires crossed the highway and there was no direct proof that plaintiff’s testator came in contact with said defendant’s wire,
    
      jFrederick P. Close and Henry K. Heyman for appellant.
    
      John A. Delahanty, Benjamin F. Briggs, Cyrus F. Smythe and Charles T. Russell for respondents.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane», Andrews and Lehman, JJ.