Scott v. Iowa Telephone Co.

Weaver, J.—

Henry D;. Scott was in. the employ of the Iowa Telephone Company at Sioux City, Iowa. He had had some experience with handling and caring for telephone wires carrying electric currents of comparatively slight force, but does not appear to have been familiar with work in connection with more powerful currents. On May 23, 1903, one of the wires in the appellant’s system on Myrtle street in said city had become broken, and fell across a heavily charged electric light wire. The free end of the broken strand hung down near the ground, and created a manifest source of peril to persons…