Beall v. Louisville Home Telephone Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn.

Affirming.

On May 9th, 1913, appellee Beall was the victim of a peculiar accident. Pie was a passenger on a Louisville & Nashville railroad train, leaving Louisville at 5 p. m. and bound for Cincinnati. He was seated in a pullman chair car, the rear car, and as the train was passing the reservoir of the Louisville Water Company, a ventilator on top of the pullman came in contact with a telephone guy wire, which had been strung across the track by employees of appellant telephone company about three hours before. The wire was tied to a round wooden stob about 4…