Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Kelly
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Wright. Walker superior court.
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. A telegraph company had its lines of poles and wires constructed along one side of a public road. On the opposite side several men were cutting down trees for a box company. Just as one of the trees was about to fall two of the men engaged in cutting went out into the road. As the tree, which was a tall pine, fell it' struck another tree, glanced or turned' from its course, and fell in or partly across the road. Either some of its limbs or part of the bther tree struck the wires of the defendant on the opposite side of the highway, breaking some of them; and a pole, to which they were…
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