Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-03-09 | Page 5 | Street Railway Damage Suit

+ Street Railway Damage Suit A suit was yesterday fed by W E Wood of Spanish Fork against the Salt Lake City Railroad company to recover 9 re-cover 2COO damagOK for personal In juries The plaintiff alleges that on January 9th last he was a passenger on one of the companys cars from the f Rio Grande Western depot to Main cr street the car being so crowded that the plaintiff wa obliged t stand on the platform and to prevent him from falling off and b lnga Jrcvcnt person he took hold the of hood of the car and came in contact with a live electric wire through which power is furnished fur-nished to run the car and thereby sustained a severe electric shock disabling dis-abling his arm and burning his hand I He claims It was the duty of tIe company is com-pany to have the wire properly insulated in-sulated and that It did not do so