SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. Cox

HALLEY, Justice.

J. L. Cox, hereafter called plaintiff, brought suit for personal injuries received by him as a result of a fall from a truck. At the time of the accident he was riding on a load of brush in the bed of a dump truck owned and operated by defendant Willard Feeback as it proceeded along an unpaved county road. One limb began to fall from the truck bed. As plaintiff faced to the rear and reached for the limb, he was struck on his back and pulled from the truck by a telephone wire, belonging to defendant Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which crossed the roadway at that point.…