Alabama Power Co. v. Bryant

FOSTER, Justice.

Appellant seems to be content to ground its right to reversal principally on its claim of error in denying the affirmative charge.

It is an electric utility, distributing such service to consumers, and has a distribution system for that purpose. Plaintiff’s intestate was a resident of plaintiff’s home thus served by defendant. During a thunderstorm she was killed by a stroke of lightning while sitting under an electric drop light. The circumstances were such that the jury could infer that lightning, or atmospheric electricity, was conducted into the house by defendant’s service…