Bristol Telephone Co. v. Stockton's
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Washington county, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
While plaintiff’s intestate was at work in the employment of the telephone company, stringing telephone wires and attaching them by means of clips to a cable fastened to a line of poles along Boone street in Johnson City, Tennessee, his foot came in contact with a heavily charged electric wire strung on a cross-arm beneath the cable, attached to the pole near which Stockton was working, and he was killed. The administrator brought this action to recover damages for the death of his intestate, which he ascribes to the negligence of the company.
At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the defendant…
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