Southwestern Gas & Electric Co. v. Hutchins

WALKER, Chief Justice.

While appellee, G. O. Hutchins, was assisting in carrying a wire cable, attached to the top of a wooden oil derrick 135 feet high, to an anchor about 190 feet immediately south from the foot of the derrick, under the electric wires of appellant, Southwestern Gas & Electric Company, the cable was brought close enough to the electric wires to cause the electricity to jump from the wires to the cable, thereby killing one of appellee’s fellow workmen and injuring him and the others, who were holding the cable at the time. On the jury’s verdict convicting appellant of…