Callaway v. Central Georgia Power Co.

1. Although an electric company may be chargeable with knowledge that children play along the streets of a city, it can not reasonably be anticipated that children, while at play in the streets of the city, will, by throwing a loose wire, make contact with the company’s uninsulated wires strung over a street at a height of twenty feet only. It follows that the erection and maintenance by an electric company of highly charged uninsulated wires over the street of a city, erected at a height of twenty feet, in the absence of any legal duty placed upon the company to insulate its wires or to…