Hines v. Consumers' Ice Light Company

This appeal is from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to a complaint which contained allegations to the following effect: Defendant is a corporation engaged in furnishing electricity to its patrons in the city of Magnolia, and, in doing so, maintains poles upon which wares are fastened in the various streets of the city.

Plaintiff further alleged that on August 30, 1921, he was employed as a lineman, and was engaged in stringing a telephone wire upon one of defendant’s poles upon which one of defendant’s primary wires was also strung, and “that, in stringing said wire to tie same into the said…