DeFrates v. Central Union Telephone Co.

This is an action by plaintiff against defendant to recover for injuries received by plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant as a telephone lineman. Plaintiff recovered a judgment against defendant for $3,000, from which it prosecutes this appeal.

Plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant as a lineman, on the 6th of August, 1907, was engaged in removing wires from a certain telephone pole upon the farm of one Keene, for the purpose of removing the line from the position which it then occupied on Keene’s farm and reconstructing it along the highway where defendant then had another…