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McLENNAN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC. v. SIMS

No. 4197.

376 S.W.2d 924 (1964)

McLENNAN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., Appellant, v. Bobby SIMS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Boyd, Westbrook & Lovelace, O. F. Jones, III, Waco, for appellant.

Minor L. Helm, Jr., W. M. Zachry, Waco, for appellee.

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Bobby Sims instituted this case against defendant Electric Cooperative for damages for the death of plaintiff's horse, which was electrocuted by an energized barbed wire fence. Plaintiff alleged that S. B. Sims (plaintiff's father), in 1954, requested defendant to extend its electric line from a tenant house on his farm (and upon which was located the meter), 150 feet to a water well; that defendant failed and refused to do so, but...

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