Meck v. Nebraska Telephone Co.

This is an action to recover damages in the sum of $25,000 for alleged negligence resulting in the death of William B. Meek. Defendant is a corporation conducting a telephone business. It uses the streets of Lincoln for underground conduits and wires. The city is crossed from north to south by Twenty-seventh street. Along the west side of that thoroughfare, two feet or more from the curb, defendant dug a trench across intersecting streets R and S, throwing earth from the excavation on the east side, thus creating an irregular, sloping embankment about two feet high. A street railway with…