Line v. Mason
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. R. E. Ball, Special Judge. (1) Building contractors and carpenters are not competent to testify as to suitability, etc., of telephone cross-arms. Huntv. St. Louis, 94 Mo. 255; Muff v. Wabash, 22 Mo. App. 584 ;„ 7 Am. and Eng. Encyclopedia of Law, 491, 494; Lawson’s Opinion and Expert Ev., 2, 91,101, 196, 197, 198; Potts v. Aechtnecht, 93 Pa.
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Appeal from the Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. R. E. Ball, Special Judge. (1) Building contractors and carpenters are not competent to testify as to suitability, etc., of telephone cross-arms. Huntv. St. Louis, 94 Mo. 255; Muff v. Wabash, 22 Mo. App. 584 ;„ 7 Am. and Eng. Encyclopedia of Law, 491, 494; Lawson’s Opinion and Expert Ev., 2, 91,101, 196, 197, 198; Potts v. Aechtnecht, 93 Pa. St. 138; Chicago v. Ingersoll, 65 111. 399; Woods v. Allen, 18 N. H. 28; Hoyt v. Long Island, 57 N. Y. 678; Brown v. Mohawk, 1 How. App. 114; Kilbourne v. Jennings, 38 Iowa, 533; Beck v. Lawrence, 9 Jones Sp.…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
In July, 1893, Hughes Brothers, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, contracted with defendant Mason to manufacture and sell to him two thousand, two hundred cross-arms for telephone poles. The contract provided that the cross-arms should be made out of yellow pine lumber three and one fourth by four and one fourth inches, which, after being dressed, would finish three by four inches, sameto be six feet long, with a certain number of holes for insulator pins, which were to be at certain distances apart; the arms to be painted one coat, and the work and materials to be first-class in every respect,…
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