Home Telephone Co. v. Fields
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appear from Mobile* Cimiit Court. Heard before Hon. Sautter B. Browne. Action by Henrietta Fields, administratrix of Robert Isble, deceased, against the Home Telephone Company, for tlie death of the deceased. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appear from Mobile* Cimiit Court. Heard before Hon. Sautter B. Browne. Action by Henrietta Fields, administratrix of Robert Isble, deceased, against the Home Telephone Company, for tlie death of the deceased. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The negligence laid in the complaint,, is, the defendant- negligently caused or permitted one of its said wires which, ran along above the easterly side of Davis Avenue, or its continuation, to be cut from the pole supporting it, and allowed to hang from a tree or trees, so that it was a menace to the public safety, by reason of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show, without dispute, that Robert. Isble, the son of plaintiff, while walking along Davis avenue, in a su-, burl) of Mobile, walked beneath an oak tree, on the edge of a public road, and touched a. wire fence that was nailed 'to the tree, and was killed by an electric shock theiefrom.
The evidence of the plaintiff showed, that a trolley pole of the Mobile Light & Railroad Company projected into the branches of this tree; that through this trolley pole ran an eve-bolt that supported the span wire that held up the trolley -wire which was heavily charged with…
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