Speight v. Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co.
Utah Supreme Court
!Aj?peal from District Court, Third District; Hon. T. D. 'Lewis Judge. Action by George Harold Speight against the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, and another. Judgment for plaintiff. The Telephone company appealed. APPELLANT'S POINTS.
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!Aj?peal from District Court, Third District; Hon. T. D. 'Lewis Judge. Action by George Harold Speight against the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, and another. Judgment for plaintiff. The Telephone company appealed. APPELLANT'S POINTS. The rule of law as to the assumption of risks by servants who are minors is stated in the following cases, where minors suffered injuries in the course of their employment: (Hickly v. Taafe, 105 . T. 26; Grown v. Orr [N. Y.], 35 N. E. 648; Brobet v. Phipps [Mass.], 21 N. E. 370; Pratt v. Prouty [Mass.], 26 N. E. 1002; Downey v. Sawyer [Mass.], 32 N. E.…
1Opinion of the Court
. MeCABTY, ,J.
Plaintiff brought this action against tbe Pocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, hereinafter referred' to as tbe Teler phone Company, and tbe Utah Light & Pailway Company, hereinafter referred to as the Utah Light Company, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of said companies, while he was at work for the Telephone Company on one of its lines of telephone poles and wires in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Utah Light Company, by virtue of a certain contract which it had with the Telephone Company, strung and…
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