American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Kersh

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This action was brought in the District Court of Shelby County by the appellee C. C. Kersh, against the appellant, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the appellee Houston East & West Texas Railway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries received by the appellant while in the employ of the-railway company by being dragged from the top of a car by a wire suspended over the line of the railway. It was alleged in the petition that' the wire was a part of the line of the appellant, and was not suspended high enough above the railway track to permit cars…