Zachery v. Mayor of Madison

Wade, O. J.

1. Where a lineman of a telephone company, who had enjoyed several months experience in its service in that capacity, aged about 20 years, and not lacking in intelligence, was injured by contact with electric-light wires belonging to a municipality, which had been strung on poles in close proximity to the poles of the telephone company and from which the insulation apparently had been worn off *491near the telephone pole which the lineman climbed, as appears from his testimony and other testimony in his behalf, he knowing, or being ablé to know by ordinary diligence, that the wires…