Simmons v. Shreveport Gas, Electric Light & Power Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Actions by J. B. Simmons against the Shreveport Gas, Electric Light & Power Company, Limited, and the Shreveport Telephone Company, and by J. M. Smullins against the same defendants. Judgments for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The wires of the two defendant companies are on the same side of the street. The telephone company’s posts are taller than those of the electric light company, and its wires are strung 10 feet higher. For connecting with a house on the other side of the street two of the telephone wires were run slanting downward to a lower post on the same side of the street a distance of about 80 feet, then across the street to the house, then down the side of the house, and finally under the house, two feet from the ground. On their way downward they passed through the fleet of wires of the electric light…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hebert v. Lake Charles Ice, Light & Waterworks Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
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