Keller v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rendered against him in accordance with the verdict of a jury which was returned in a suit for damages for the death of Joseph Dempsey as the result of alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in maintaining a defective telephone pole which broke and killed Mr. Dempsey when his automobile backed across a street and ran into the pole. It is asserted the instructions which were given to the jury were prejudicially erroneous.

The telephone company erected and maintained in the sidewalk space, ten inches from the curbing of a street in Willits, a…