Light-House

An act authorizing the secretary of the treasury to acquire lands for a lighthouse by condemnation is constitutional; Chappell V. U. S., 160 U. S. 499, 16 Sup. Ct. 397, 40 L. Ed. 610. See Navigation Rules; Eminent Domain. LIGH'^NING. A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth or from the earth to a cloud or from one cloud to another, or from a body positively charged to one negatively charged. Spensley v. Ins. Co., 54 Wis. 433, 11 N. W. 894. Any sudden and violent discharge of electricity occurring in nature. Id. A stroke of lightning is an act of God; Parker v. Flagg, 26 Me. 181, 45 Am. Dec. 101; Jackson v. Telephone Co., 88 Wls. 243, 60 N. W. 430, 26 L. R. A. 101; but one cannot be excused on that ground from the conse- j quences of his own negligence in causing lightning to be conveyed to a building by a wire; Jackson v. Telephone Co., 88 Wis. 243, 60 N. W. 430, 26 L. R. A. 101. See Wires. In a policy of insurance against loss by I lightning, it is the province of the jury, not revlewable on appeal, to decide how much damage is caused by lightning and how much by other forces; Beakes v. Assur. Co., 65 Hun, 621, 20 N. Y. Supp. 37; Spensley v. Ins. Co., 64 Wis. 433, 11 N. W. 894. Where the Insurance was against loss by fire and lightning, damages caused by wind accompanying the storm were held not within it; 15 Ins. L. J. 478; nbr was damage caused by lightning without combustion covered by a clause against fire by lightning; Babcock v. Ins. Co., 4 N. Y. 326. See Andrews v. Ins. Co., 37 Me. 266. Where the damage was caused by an explosion of powder resulting from a stroke of lightning, the loss was held to be protected by a fire insurance policy which covered damage by lightning but stipulated against loss by explosion; German Fire Ins. Co. v. Roost, 65 Ohio St. 681, 46 N. B. 1097, 36 L. R. A. 236, 60 Am. St Rep. 711. See Insurance; Fire.

A structure, usually in the form of a tower, containing signal lights for the guidance of vessels at nivht, at dangerous points of a coast, shoals, ete. They are usually erected by government, and subject to governmental regulation,