Smart v. Louisiana Electric Light Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breatjx, J.

Plaintiff, personally, and as tutrix of her minor children, alleges that the negligence of the defendant company was the cause of her husband’s death.

He was a lineman in defendants’ company, and was lowering a pair of live wires on a pole at the corner of a street. He and an - other lineman had been directed to take down two alternating live *871wires from their position and place them below the other wires on the pole — that is, from one arm of the pole down to another.

The service is not necessarily dangerous.

The evidence explains that for the…