Beery v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Citations

• 95 Miss. 729
• 50 So. 59

Syllabus

<p>Electric Wires. Injuries from. Pleadings.</p> <p>A declaration in an action against two telephone companies, a traction company and a city, for the death of a servant of one of the telephone companies, is not demurrable by the other telephone company, if it charge that said company, having wires, which, if overcharged with electricity, were so near those belonging to the city’s fire alarm system as to overcharge them, and negligently allowed its uninsulated wires to be and remain in close proximity to high voltage wires of the traction company thereby communicating death-dealing electricity to an otherwise harmless wire of the city fire alarm system with which the decedent came in contact and consequently was killed while working on his master’s line.</p>