Long v. Johnson County Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court.— Hon. J. H. Preston, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries received by tbe plaintiff while in the employ of defendant as lineman, and alleged to have resulted from the negligence of defendant in not advising plaintiff of danger involved in the particular operation in which he was engaged; Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
It appears that the plaintiff was an experienced lineman, who at the time of the accident, in February, 1904, had been in the employ of the defendant company for two or three weeks. He was engaged at the time of the accident with other employes in erecting a large circle pole about sixty-five feet high, and transferring to it a messenger wire serving to support a cable containing many telephone wires; the purpose of the operation being to have the cable run up the new pole to the circle at the *338top. This general undertaking had been inaugurated before plaintiff entered the employ of the…
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