Jackson-Hazard Telephone Co. v. Holliday's Admr.

Opinion op the Couet by

Judge Caeboll

Reversing.

A team of mules attached to the wagon in which E. H. Holliday was riding on his way home from the town of Hazard ran off, causing the wagon to collide with one of appellant telephone company’s poles located on the side of the road. As a result of the collision he was thrown from the wagon and instantly killed. To recover damages for his death his administrator brought this action, alleging that the telephone company had negligently and without right erected and maintained in the public highway a pole which was an obstruction to the travel thereon…