Union Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Young's Admr.

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson

Reversing.

Homer Yonng was a lineman in the service of the Union Light, Heat and Power Company. In July 1909 about two o’clock in the afternoon, a pole crew were engaged in putting in a new pole along one of the company’s lines. After they got the pole set up, they sent for Yonng, as a lineman to come and adjust the line wires to the new pole. This he did. A tree stood near by close to the wires. A limb had broken off the tree and was hanging down over the wire. The foreman then asked Young if he thought he could go up there without touching the…