Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Bullock

James S. Bullock, the plaintiff below, an employee of Enterprise Electric Company of Baltimore, fell from a pole which was jointly occupied by that company and the defendant, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, and was injured. .He recovered a verdict and judgment against the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company.

The Enterprise Electric Company will be referred to as “the Electric Company”, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company as “the defendant”, and James S. Bullock as “the plaintiff”.

The Electric Company, acting under a contract between it and the United States, erected…