Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Kelton

UDALL, Justice.

This action) brought to recover damages for injuries inflicted by defendants to plaintiff’s underground telephone cable, was tried to the court sitting without a jury, result ing in a judgment for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals. The parties will be designated the same as they were in the lower court.

The evidence discloses that the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, a corporation, plaintiff-appellant, is a public utility engaged in the telephone and telegraph business in the intermountain west. It maintains an underground trunk cable extending from its main…