Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. Prince

John M. Prince, appellee, sued appellant, Power Company, for a substantial sum to compensate-for personal injuries alleged to have been received at about 3:30 in the afternoon on January 15, 1948, while he was assisting his brother and father in lifting a 134-inch metal pipe from a well and the pipe came in contact with a 7,620-volt electric wire. He alleged, in effect, (1) that appellant was negligent in stringing its uninsulated wire over the corner of his brother’s, B. L. Prince, yard without right and was a trespasser, (2) that its power poles so resembled telephone poles as to confuse…