Ohio Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Yant

This is a pole-in-the-road case, instituted by the telegraph company for damages to its equipment. Its solution, in view of the pronouncements found in Cambridge Home Telephone Co. v. Harrington, 127 Ohio St., 1, 186 N. E., 611, and Ohio Bell Tel. Co. v. Lung, Admx., 129 Ohio St., 505, 196 N. E., 371, is approached with the usual deference, but without diffidence in the soundness of our conclusion herein reached.

The defendant, Yant, was the owner of a Ford roadster. Defendant, Dye, was its driver. They, with two other grown people, occupied the car’s only seat. While proceeding northeasterly…