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

Eva Roesler, an Infant, by Her Guardian ad Litem, Victoria Roesler, Respondent, v. Dunkirk Home Telephone Company, Appellant.
    
      Roesler v. Dunkirk, Home Telephone Co., 166 App. Div. 967, affirmed.
    (Argued November 28, 1916;
    decided December 15, 1916.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered January 25, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff received an electric shock by coming in contact with a wire attached to one of defendant’s poles about three feet from the grpund, which wire hung across an electric light wire heavily charged with electricity.
    
      Edward IT. Leichworth for appellant.
    
      Nelson J. Palmer for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Willard Bartlett, Oh. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddebaok, Hogan, Oardozo and Pound, JJ.