Abilene Light & Water Co. v. Robinson

DUNKLIN, Associate Justice.

The Abilene Light & Water Company has appealed from a judgment in favor of W. M. Bobinson for fifteen hundred dollars recovered as damages for injuries sustained by Bobinson as the result of a fall from a pole while he was placing thereon wires for electric lights.

Plaintiff was in the employment of defendant as lineman and on ^he occasion of the accident in controversy was engaged in the construction of a new line of electric light wires. He had full charge of the work of constructing it and was assisted in the work by D. P. Kendall, his co-employee. He selected…