Missouri District Telegraph Co. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Lester D. Bose recovered a judgment against the parties to the present suit for damages for personal injuries he sustained on April 15, 1926, by falling from a telephone pole on which were located plant facilities of the respective companies. The judgment was affirmed for $40,000 on appeal to this court. [Rose v. Missouri District Telegraph Company, 328 Mo. 1009, 43 S. W. (2d) 569.] Thereafter, on January 8, 1932, the telegraph company, respondent herein, paid said judgment under execution, and shortly sued the telephone company and the light company, its codefendants in the former action,…