Stewart v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

WILLIAMS, Justice.

In the area where the accident herein involved occurred, the Southwestern Gas and Electric Company, hereafter styled Electric Company, maintained an electric high-line that crossed over and above a telephone line, owned, maintained and operated by Humble Oil and Refining Company, herein styled Humble.

Howard Stewart, employed by Humble as a switcher, resided with his family in a pumper’s cottage on the leasehold furnished by Humble, within which a telephone installed by the latter had been connected with above telephone line. On the morning of and about the time of the…