Show I i i NT S FOR FO a SP SPEIGHT Verdict for Thousand Dol Dollars Dollars Dollars lars Against Telephone and Light and Street StreetCar Car Companies A jury jUr In Judge Lewis court yester yesterday yesterday ester day da returned a verdict for dam darn damages damages ages against the Rocky Rock Mountain Bell Telephone company and the Utah Light it Railway company and In favor of or George H Speight I I The verdict is the largest in a personal damage suit returned by b a jury in the I I district court this year and one of the largest for several years ears past Speight 30 20 years yea s old was employed as a lineman for the HIe telephone company compan In February 1907 he was working on OIl ona a n pole at Center and Main streets when he lie got hold of a live wire and fell to the ground His HIg left hand was so severe severely ly burned that it had to be amputated and his body was also badly burned and his skull fractured He was in the hospital hospi hospital tal several months He claimed that a feed wire and a tele telephone telephone telephone phone wire had come into contact and that both companies were negligent The T e feed wire it was said had ha a insulation which caused the telephone wire when rubbed it against it to carry an Immense electric current The negligence negligence gence on the part of the respective com corn companies companies was in the placing of the feed and telephone wires so close together s sto sto to render contact possible under ordinary circumstances |