Texas Electric Service Co. v. Hawthorne

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

For some fifteen years the Texas Electric Service Company had been employed by the City of Wichita Falls to repair its electric traffic lights, installed to light its public streets. On December 26th, 1935, C. E. Young, one of its employees, undertook to repair a traffic light located immediately above the center of the intersection of 9th Street, running in a northerly and easterly direction, and Scott Street, running in a northerly and southerly direction. Each of the two streets was 60 'feet wide, and the two streets run at right angles to each other. In making…