Anderson v. Inland Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Citations

• 19 Wash. 575
• 41 L.R.A. 410
• 53 P. 657
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 428

Syllabus

<p>MASTER AND SERVANT — INJURIES TO SERVANT — CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE — ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.</p> <p>A lineman in the employ of a telephone company, among whose duties was the inspection of poles and wires, and who was equipped with apparatus for testing electric insulators, was chargeable with contributory negligence, as the direct cause of injuries received while climbing a pole used jointly by the telephone company and an electric railway, by reason of his coming in contact with a guy wire supporting a trolley wire, which had become highly charged with electricity, owing to the breaking of an insulator, when by the exercise of care on his part he could have learned of the danger.</p>