Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Archer

BOND, Chief Justice.

Appellees (three minors), by their mother as next friend, instituted this suit against appellant, Dallas Railway & Terminal Company, for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the wrongful death of their father, A. H. Archer, as the result of an electric shock received when he walked into an uninsulated wire which had been broken and blown from the defendant’s poles by a severe windstorm, falling on the company’s trolley wire and extending across a public street and sidewalk onto a vacant lot.

*291The death of Mr. Archer was the result of peculiar circumstances: On Sunday,…