West Texas Utilities Co. v. Harris

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

H. N. Harris and wife sued the West Texas Utilities Company for damages caused by the electrocution of their minor son, Bobbie Harris. Plaintiffs alleged that Bobbie was employed by the Pioneer Gasoline Company to clean out its gasoline pipe line; that Bobbie and others would unscrew joints of pipe along the line, stand one end of a pipe on a block of wood and hit the pipe with a hammer to break loose the rust in the pipe; that, while Bobbie was so engaged, a pipe he was cleaning came in contact with defendant’s high voltage electric line “above his head” and Bobbie was…