Phelps Ex Rel. Phelps v. Board of County Commissioners

By the declaration in this case it is charged that th'e Postal Telegraph and Cable Company, one of the defendants, with the permission of the County Commissioners of Howard County, the other defendant, and contrary to the duty of the defendants to keep the public roads of the county in a safe condition for public travel, erected a telegraph pole in a dangerous position in a designated public road of the county by placing tie pole in tbe side of tbe highway and so close to the traveled portion thereof that the part of a hay carriage, known as the lazy board, which extends out from the center…