Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. East Texas Public Service Co.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This was tort action begun by R. E. John-son against Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him as a result of his coming into contact with a cable which was heavily charged with electricity. The cable was used b the service company £or the purpose of raising and lowering an eleetric light at a street intersection, and was not designed or intended as a conductor of electrie current. But it had become charged with electricity as a result of the cutting or breaking of a guy wire which theretofore had been , , Va. • , , fastened by the service company…