Rowe v. Taylorville Electric Co.

Albert Rowe was employed by the Central Union Telephone Company, in the city of Taylorville. On January 4, 1902, the appellee, the Taylorville Electric Company, owned and operated an electric light plant in said city which had been in operation about eight years. The telephone company had secured a license to erect telephone poles, with wires, on the streets of said city, and on said day Rowe and five other employees of that company were at work stringing wires on poles in North street. The poles were set on the same side of the street as those of the electric company, but were higher. The…