El Paso Electric Ry. Co. v. Cowan

This was an action in the court below by the appellee, Cowan, against the appellant, El Paso Electric Railway Company, a corporation, for personal injuries sustained while in its service as a lineman. He alleged that, while engaged with others in cutting an overhead trolley wire and standing upon the platform of one-of the company’s tower wagons holding to the wire, the wire was suddenly severed, and-he was caused to fall. That in order to save himself he caught a bar, which held together the railings of- the platform of the wagon, but that this bar gave way, or turned in his hand, and he…