City of Dawson v. Smith

The petition alleged that the plaintiff was a lineman for a telephone company. He was an electrician by trade, or proposed to become an electrician. Also it was alleged that he had no expert knowledge of electricity. He was nineteen years old, was earning $2 per day, and was injured by contact with a wire conveying electricity from the plant owned and operated by the city of Dawson, which wire was strung on the pole of the telephone company, and was wholly without insulation, “the. insula*604tion on same having been entirely worn off.” By an amendment he struck the words within the quotation…