Wehner & White v. Lagerfelt

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment-against appellants in favor of appellee for $1000 damages occasioned by the negligence of appellants in permitting a wire charged with electricity to hang down from the poles of an electric light company which they were operating near a public street. The conclusions of fact and law fully show the nature of the case.

On or about the first day of July, 1900, appellants, Wehner & White, a partnership composed of Peter Wehner and Z. T. White, were in possession of and operating under a lease all the property of the El Paso Gas, Electric…