Mann v. Northeast Kansas Telephone Co.

This is an action to recover damages for a personal injury. The defendant is a telephone company whose telephone line occupied a part of the public highway. It had an employee whose duty consisted of traveling along the line with a team of horses and keeping the line in repair. This employee, upon the occasion of the alleged injury, tied his team to one of the telephone poles and climbed up to inspect the wire. The team broke loose and ran away, running into and injuring the plaintiff, who was traveling upon the highway in a buggy drawn by one horse. Upon a trial in the district court the…