Texas-Louisiana Power Co. v. Daniels

Some time after eleven o’clock at night on May 13, 1929, Doc Webster, Tom Webster, his brother, and Bowen Daniels, Doc Webster’s brother-in-law, were killed about three miles south of Bells, in Grayson County, Texas, by coming in contact with a power line of the Texas-Louisiana Company at a place where it was broken down by a stroke of lightning about six or seven o’clock the previous morning.

Growing out of these tragic occurrences we have before us the two above numbered and entitled suits. The two suits are so related to each other that we dispose of both of them in one opinion.

The first…