Court Opinion

ID: 9829771
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:36:33.038056+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:05.992432
License: Public Domain

On Motions for Rehearing and for Additional Conclusions of Pact.
Appellant requested additional findings of fact, and in deference thereto we make the following: The pole, cross-arms, and electric wires, at the corner of Hull and Austin streets, were the sole property of the Deni-son Light & Power Company. There was no defect in said pole, cross-arms, or electric wires of the Denison Light & Power Company. Patton made a groove in the top of the extension made to the telephone pole and placed the messenger wire of the telephone company, to which was -suspended its cable, in said groove. He, with the assistance of a companion, had swung the platform from the messenger wire so that the same, when his weight was put upon it, rested on the light wires. The platform did not touch the light wires, however, until appellee got upon it. The telephone company had strung its cable after the light company had erected its pole and strung its light wires. The light company had no control or authority over the telephone company or its employés, and no power to direct the one in the disposition of its property or the other in their work. When Sammon, the lineman, telephoned the engineer to turn on the current, Brown, the engineer, was not present, and his assistant, one Barrett, answered the ’phone and turned on the current. Barrett was not present when Patton had notified Brown, the engineer, that morning, that he was going to work at the corner of Hull and Austin streets, and was ignorant of the fact that he was working there.
Except as above indicated, the motion for additional findings of fact is overruled.
The questions presented in the motion for a rehearing were earefuily considered before the original opinion was written, and in our opinion correctly decided.
Said motion is therefore overruled.