State v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

By a demurrer, which the trial court sustained, the defendant corporation questioned the sufficiency of a declaration which alleged, in effect, that, as the owner and operator of a line of telephone poles and wires in Somerset County, it entered into an agreement with a firm of contractors for certain alterations, improvements, and additions to its line; that, in the course of the work required by the contract, the Husband of one of tHe personal plaintiffs, upon whom she and His father, another plaintiff, were dependent, was engaged as a lineman in the employ of the contractors in the…