Sweet v. Henderson
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Payne County; A. H. Huston. Judge. Action by L. B. Sweet against F. A. Henderson and 27 others. Judgment for defendants, motion for new trial overruled, and plaintiff -brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMcNEILL, J.
This was an action brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the alleged negligence of certain defendants in maintaining a telephone wire across the public highway.
The petition alleges that the plaintiff was driving on the public highway in a covered wagon, and the defendants were maintaining their telephone wire across the public highway so low that it caught the top or cover on the wagon, thereby jerking the top and box of the wage -n from the gears; the iffain-tiff being thrown to the ground and injured. To this petition the defendants filed their answer, which was a…
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