Belt v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Mrs. Juanita W. Belt brought suit in the city court of Waynesboro against I. L. Barron, a resident of Wilkinson County, and the Western Union Telegraph Company, a non-resident corporation, alleging that the defendants had damaged and injured her in the sum of $10,000 as thereinafter set forth. In substance it was alleged that I. L. Barron, who was mayor of Mid-ville, Georgia, and also agent of the telegraph company, caused the company to remove a guy wire that extended from a pole on the side of the street into the street, and instructed the company to run the guy wire over the top of a…