Howard v. Flathead Independent Tel. Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Ravalli County; R. Lee McCulloch, Judge. Action by Ruth B. Howard against the Flathead Independent Telephone Company and the Montana Independent Telephone Company. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff and an order denying the former company a new trial, it appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holloway
The complaint herein charges that the defendant Flathead Independent Telephone Company, during December, 1911, maintained a telephone line along the public highway two miles west of Yietor, Montana, that at a point on that highway near the foot of Blackmore Hill it had attached a guy or stay wire to one of its telephone posts standing at the side of the road, which guy wire extended for several feet toward the center of the road, and to the ground where it was anchored, “obstructing said road, and making traveling thereon dangerous to the public”; that on December -9, 1911, while plaintiff…
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