Boomer

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict for the plaintiffs for damages suffered by reason of the destruction by fire of certain household furnishings belonging to the plaintiffs and located in a dwelling occupied by them as their home.

The complaint alleges that the defendant without right or permission so to do attached its “high-powered electric service wires” to plaintiffs’ house for the purpose of serving electric energy to a house located upon an adjacent lot; that the said wires were so defectively, negligently and carelessly attached to plaintiffs’ house, and were so defectively and negligently maintained thereon that the said house and the furnishings therein contained were destroyed by fire on March 9, 1924; that the fire “was caused by the said energized electric wires,” and that at the time of the fire plaintiffs were occupying said house and had certain furnishings and personal property therein, all of which were destroyed by said fire through the careless and negligent acts of said defendant.

The answer admits that defendant attached its wires to plaintiffs’ house, but denies that said wires were high-powered or other than…