Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Hodges

RANDOLPH,, J.

The plaintiff J. A. Hodges, brought this suit in the county court of Lubbock county, for damages alleged to have been occasioned to a building which he was the owner of, by one Gelin and the telephone company.

The ease was submitted to a jury upon special issues, after the dismissal of the case as to Gelin, and on the jury’s’ answers to such issues the trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff as against the telephone company, and appeal has been taken froin such judgment by the company.

In order that the questions hereinafter discussed by us may be clearly…