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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