Ortiz v. El Paso Electric Co.

NEALON, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Carmelita T. Ortiz, sued ap-pellee, El Paso Electric Company, for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the wrongful death of her son, Osbaldo, which she alleged was occasioned by the negligence of appellee. Appellee is a public service corporation and maintains high tension power transmission wires in El Paso County, Texas.

Sometime after midnight of January 1, 1937, an automobile driven by some unnamed persons struck one of defendant’s poles, knocking it down and causing the wires strung thereon to fall in the public highway. A deputy sheriff, Bob…