Dixon v. Western Union Tel. Co.

BAKER, District Judge.

The defendant has filed its demurrer to the second paragraph of the plaintiff’s complaint, alleging that it does nor, state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The paragraph shows the requisite diversity of citizenship to give the court jurisdiction, and then proceeds to allege, in substance, that the defendant owns divers lines and wires running on poles through the streets and highways of the city of Indianapolis, in the statu of Indiana; that it employs a large number of men, whose duties, among others, are to string the wires on said poles, and to…