CLOUGH v. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.


342 Mass. 31 (1961)

172 N.E.2d 113

IRENE LUCCIARDI CLOUGH, administratrix, vs. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

February 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon F. Sargent, for New England Telephone & Telegraph Company.

William J. Fenton, for New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company.

Charles R. Desmarais, for the plaintiffs.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

These are four actions of tort to recover for the conscious suffering and death of James Lucciardi and for personal injuries to Ambrose Knight, sustained when an electric current ran from a high voltage wire to a cable of a crane with which they were working. Knight and Irene Lucciardi Clough, administratrix of the estate of James Lucciardi, each bring an action against the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company (light company) and the New England Telephone...

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