Washington & O. D. Ry. Co. v. Dulany

SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.

Edwin Delany Bland and C. A. Trammell were employed as linemen by the Washington & Old Dominion Railway Company. On the 19th of June, 1916, Bland and his assistant, Trammell, were called upon to repair an overhead trolley wire, which was out of order, and which was established by the company as a conductor of electricity to furnish the motor power for its transportation service..

It appeared from the evidence submitted by plaintiff’s intestate that to make the needed repairs Bland mounted a ladder reaching from the ground to the trolley wire, a height of about…