Parkes v. New York Telephone Co.

The defendant’s men were engaged in repairing cables maintained on poles situated at the curb of a street in a sparsely populated part of Queens. They were using a bos’n chair, which they anchored at five p.-m., June 28,1922, on the cables about four or five feet from one of the telephone poles. This pole had the usual spikes and cleats upon it for climbing. A rope hung down from the bos’n chair. They tied this rope with a knot around the pole at the point either, six and one-half or four feet from the ground, forming a loop from the bos’n chair to the pole. After the men left for the night,…