McPheters v. Loomis

The plaintiff’s intestate, a boy about nine years old, was last seen alive while walking along the right of way of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company in Middlefield. The Western Union Telegraph Company maintained a line of wires strung over poles, under an agreement with the railroad company giving to it the right to enter upon the premises for the purpose of maintaining or replacing the wires and poles, with a provision that the telegraph company should reimburse the railroad company for, and would save it harmless from, any damage done by the telegraph company or its…