Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bush

C. J. Singleton arid Frank Lester filed separate suits in the circuit court of Clark County to recover damages for alleged loss of crops of corn and cotton growing on certain lands in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Singleton ivas the owner of land and Lester was a tenant. It was charged in the complaints, in each case, that the defendant, Western Union Telegraph Company, cut a certain levee nearly or about a mile west of the lands owned and cultivated by the parties suing it, by digging a hole down into the levee and inserting therein a pole for the- suspension of its lines, and that this placing…