Aaron v. Missouri & Kansas Telephone Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

A partnership which was conducting a local telephone business attached a wire to a line of poles of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company, under a contract allowing this to be done for an agreed consideration. The owner of the poles, which will be spoken of as the telephone company, was engaged in replacing them by a new set. For this purpose it had a crew of men at work removing from the old poles all of its own wires excepting one, which was described as a “dead” wire. Walter Aaron, in the employ of the partnership referred to, was…