Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Co. v. Owings
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. January term, 1895. Mrs. Owings sued tbe railway company, alleging that on September 6, 1893, her husband, A. Y. Owings, was an employee of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, a corporation owning and operating a telephone system in and around Atlanta; and it became his duty as such employee to assist in relieving some trouble in a telephone in the house of the Biedmout Club.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. January term, 1895. Mrs. Owings sued tbe railway company, alleging that on September 6, 1893, her husband, A. Y. Owings, was an employee of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, a corporation owning and operating a telephone system in and around Atlanta; and it became his duty as such employee to assist in relieving some trouble in a telephone in the house of the Biedmout Club. In the performance of such duty it became necessary for him to ascend a pole of the telephone company, situated within the grounds of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
1. This case, in some respects, resembles that of Augusta Railway Co. v. Andrews, 89 Ga. 653, although in one essential feature the two cases are materially different. In the former, it appeared that Andrews, who was injured by an electric current, was, at the time he received the shock, a trespasser upon the fire-alarm system of the city of Augusta, having, without permission, climbed a pole upon which he had no right to go; and it was accordingly held that he took the risk incident to the trespass. In the present case, the deceased husband of the plaintiff, who was killed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Augusta Railway Co. v. AndrewsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1892
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