Hall v. Sidney Clotfelter, Inc.

Hall, Judge.

1. The petition alleged that the defendant utility was negligent in that it did not prevent or take any steps to prevent electricity from arcing from its uninsulated high tension wires through a wet water oak tree 'to a boom through the erection equipment on which the plaintiff was working and into the plaintiff’s body. There was evidence that three months before plaintiff’s injury an employee of the defendant utility saw that the water oak tree was grown up into the transformer and wires but did not report or take any action about it. There was testimony that a tree that has been…