Harre v. Fayette County Mutual Telephone Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

On July 9, 1934, appellants, Jacob Harre, Jr., and Gilbert Harre, together with their father, brother and a brother-in-law, were returning home in the early evening, over a public highway, from their work of plowing corn and baling straw in a field some distance from their residence. They were all riding on a truck loaded with baled straw, the top of the load being 9 feet and 10 inches from the ground. Across the highway was a guy wire maintained by appellee to steady one of its telephone poles along the side of the road. Said…