San Angelo Water, Light & Power Co. v. Baugh

Appellee, B. E. Baugh, sued’ appellants, San Angelo Water, Light & Power Company and Texas Electric & Power Company, corporations, charging them jointly and severally with negligently permitting a dangerous, excessive, and deadly quantity of electricity, generated by them, to escape and enter appellee’s place of employment at the switchboard of the San Angelo Telephone Company, at Miles, Tex., alleging that the electricity came onto the telephone apparatus and thence into his body, causing him painful, serious, and permanent bodily injuries, to his damage in the sum of $7,-500.

Appellants’…