Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Cedar Valley Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Floyd District Oowrt. — C. H. Kelley, Judge. Action to recover indemnity paid by plaintiff, under tbe terms of a policy of insurance issued to the People’s Mutual Telephone Company, on account of the death of an employee. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the court below, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
*10161. Master and servant: Workmen’s Compensation agaínst^tMrd party* *1015I. Leland Esslinger, an employee of the People’s Mutual Telephone Company, while engaged in attaching a service wire to a glass insulator on a telephone *1016pole, caused the wire to come in contact r with a high-tension wire of the defendant’s, carrying an electric current of 2,000 volts, resulting in his instant death. The poles supporting the telephone wires extended about 17% feet above the surface of the ground. The poles of defendant light company, bn which there was a crossbeam about 14 inches below the top, to which the…
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