Wight v. Cumb. Telph. & Telg. Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hobson

— Affirming.

John Wight was in the service of the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company as a member of a take-out crew; that is, a crew whose duty it was to remove telephones from houses when the service was discontinued. Wight and a man by the name of G-oldstein constituted the crew; neither being the superior of the other. They went to take out the telephone from the house of a Mrs. Wolf on East Burnett street in Louisville. The telephone wires ran along East Burnett street on the opposite side of the street from the house, and a wire was stretched…