HANAMAN v. NEW YORK TEL. CO.


278 A.D. 875 (1951)

Lemuel Hanaman, Respondent, v. New York Telephone Company, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

May 9, 1951.


While using the telephone equipment of the defendant in August, 1947, plaintiff fell unconscious. A witness heard a loud snap or cracking noise. Deep indentations were observed in the diaphram of the telephone receiver at the site of the pole pieces of the electromagnet; the bakelite cap of the earpiece was discolored and some of the lacquer on the coated side of the diaphram was chipped off. A physician said plaintiff had suffered an electric shock. Defendant rested on plaintiff...

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