Atlantic & Birmingham Railroad v. Reynolds

Reynolds sued the Waycross Air-Line Railroad Company for damages, alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of injuries received by the falling of a telephone pole forming a part of a telephone line owned and operated by the defendant company, which pole he, in the course of his employment by the company as a lineman, had ascended for the purposqof repairing a broken telephone wire. In his petition he alleged that the pole in question fell while he was at the top of it, engaged in such work, and that the defendant was negligent, “ in that it did not place said telephone pole a…