Texas Power & Light Co. v. Jezek

I respectfully enter my dissent to the judgment and opinión rendered and handed . down in this cause, affirming the 'judgment of the court below,' because I believe the evidence in the cáse raised the issue of unavoidable accident. ‘ '

The evidence shows that Dick Jezek had climbed a pole to which electric wires of appellant were fixed, straddled the pole and set on a telephone cable which' was thirty-six inches below the lowest electric wire, and caught hold of tile, electric wire and was killed. The lower wire was something like six or eight inches above the . deceased’s .head after he'…