Gulf States Utilities Co. v. County of Chambers

OPINION

HILL, Acting Chief Justice.1

Gulf States Utilities appeals from a take-nothing judgment following a trial before the court. Two employees of the appellees Chambers County and Chambers County Engineering Department, Road and Bridge Division, brought suit after they were injured when a flagpole that they were erecting came in contact with electrical power lines owned by Gulf States. Gulf States sought indemnity from the appellees for the amount of its liability to the injured workers, based upon the provisions of former article 1436c. Tex. Rev.Civ.StatANN. art. 1436c (Vernon 1980), now…