Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Kranz
Indiana Court of Appeals
Prom Clark Circuit Court; Harry G. Montgomery, Judge. Action by Leonard Kranz against the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtIbach, J.
This was an action in tort brought by appellee to recover damages against appellant and tbe Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Company, for the alleged negligent killing of two horses, the property of appellee. Appellant owned and operated a telephone line. Its codefendant owned and operated an electric railway. During a windstorm appellant’s telephone wire fell and rested in part on the railway company’s trolley wire and in part on the ground, and by contact with said trolley wire the telephone wire became charged with an electric current. As the telephone wire was thus resting on…
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