Santana v. First Guaranty Management Corp.

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

As Salomen Santana, Juan Santillan and Hector Berrios (“the painters”) were painting an apartment building owned by Sherwood Associates, a Limited Partnership, and Sherwood Apartments, Inc. (“the owners”), they were injured by high-voltage electricity from Georgia Power Company’s (“Georgia Power”) overhead power cable. The incident occurred while the painters were raising an extension ladder to the building’s second-story eave. An electrical bolt hit the *473painters when the ladder either touched or came too close to the nearby power cable, which was more than 28 feet…