Taylor v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from summary judgment that the plaintiff below take nothing from his personal injury suit against Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. The summary judgment was grounded on the assertion made by the motion that defendant’s alleged negligence in placing its telephone wire across the surface of the plaintiff’s yard was superseded by a new and independent cause when two boys later hung the wire from a tree so that it was above the plaintiff’s driveway and in a position where it was struck by a car driven by the plaintiff’s wife. The wire then struck the…