Cynthiana Telephone Co. v. Asbury

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle —

Affirming.

Appellee recovered a verdict and judgment against appellant in the court below for $1,250.00, as compensatory damages for personal injuries resulting from his coming ’into contact with, and being thrown from a wagon by, a loose wire belonging to appellant’s telephone system, which, it was alleged, it had negligently permitted to become detached from one or more of its poles and so suspended upon and across the highway as to obstruct its use and make travel thereon dangerous.

It appears from the record that the accident occurred on the Cynthiana…