SAN JUAN LIGHT CO. v. REQUENA

No. 96.

224 U.S. 89 (1912)

SAN JUAN LIGHT & TRANSIT CO. v. REQUENA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 18, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hugo Kohlmann, with whom Mr. F. Kingsbury Curtis, Mr. H.H. Scoville and Mr. H.P. Leake were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

The court declined to hear further argument. Mr. Willis Sweet and Mr. George H. Lamar submitted a brief for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

The judgment here to be reviewed is one awarding damages to a widow for the death of her husband, caused by an electric shock received while he was adjusting an incandescent light in his residence in San Juan, Porto Rico. The case presented by the evidence produced upon the trial, which was to the court and a jury, was this:

The defendant was supplying the...

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