Yearsley v. Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Citations

• 110 Cal. 236
• 42 P. 638
• 1896 Cal. LEXIS 527

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant—Negligence—Telephone Lineman.—A lineman of a telephone company, who, while engaged in stringing a line of wire upon certain telephone poles, voluntarily climbs a tree to arrange the wire, and while so employed is injured by the breaking of the limb upon which he was standing, cannot recover for the injury from the company.</p>