Tierney ex rel. Tierney v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.;

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding compensation to a workman injured in the service of the defendant telephone company.

The.plaintiff, a youth of seventeen years, was employed by the defendant. His ordinary duties were the charging of batteries in defendant’s telephone exchanges in the villages of Crawford county. On a few occasions he had been detailed to hang loose wires in an office and to assist a telephone line repair man. He resided at Pitts-burg, and in going to the villages nearby in the discharge of his duties he sometimes…