Tri-County Electric Membership Corp. v. Meador

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The judgment awards damages of $500 for interference by an electric light and power transmission line with a telephone line. The case was tried without a jury upon the pleadings and stipulation of facts, the material substance of which may be thus stated:

For thirty years or more the appellee, R. O. Meador, owned and operated a telephone exchange and system, serving 60 persons in and around the village of Holland, in Allen County. It is a one-wire system on poles located on public highways and with ground 'wires at the exchange and the…