Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Slezak

In this action, respondent sued to recover damages in the sum of $896.50 from appellant, by reason of appellant’s employe driving a spike into a conduit owned by respondent in the street.

The complaint of respondent, among other things, alleges:

That, at the times mentioned and for many years last past, respondent had been engaged in the general telephone and telegraph business in Seattle, and had maintained and operated its telephone lines and cables over, across and under the streets and alleys of the city; that on the morning of April 23, 1927, appellant W. F. Slezak was engaged in placing…