Augusta Railway Co. v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Georgia
New trial. Practice. Electric wires. Master and servant. Before Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. May term, 1891. Action by Andrews against the railway company, for damages from personal injuries. He obtained a verdict; the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and it excepted. It excepted also to the overruling of its demurrer to the declaration, the material allegations of which are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
According to the declaration, there was in the city of Augusta,'at the time of the alleged injury, a system of electric wires operated by the defendant, the Augusta Railway Company; there was also another system, consisting of the fire-alarm wires of the Augusta Fire Department ; and the plaintiff was employed in putting up wires for a third, that of a telephone company. In stringing the wires on the poles, it became necessary at a certain point for the plaintiff to place the telephone wire above and across the fire-alarm wire, and for that, purpose he ascended a pole of the…
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