Wilson v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

1. A telephone company which maintains a telephone system and furnishes service to the public, and in the operation of its system furnishes to a hotel a switchboard, together with plugs and other accompanying appliances, used in making telephonic connections between the various telephone stations in the rooms of the hotel and the outside public, and whose duty it is to maintain a switchboard and accompanying appliances and to keep them in working order, is, for a breach of such duty, liable in damages to an employee of the hotel, lawfully operating the switchboard, who is injured as the…