Alabama Power Co. v. Alexander

This is an appeal by the Power Company from a judgment for the plaintiff in a personal injury action.

Plaintiff Alexander was employed by Billy Snead as part of a three-man crew hired to drill a well on a lot bordering Gammage Road in Barbour County. Alexander was injured when a 37-foot metal pipe, which he and the other crew members were removing from the well, came into contact with an uninsulated 7200-volt power line owned and maintained by Alabama Power Company.

The power line involved extends along the right-of-way of Gammage Road in a rural area of Barbour County and is located on an…