Georgia Power Co. v. Parker

When this case was formerly before this court, Georgia Power Co. v. Parker, 48 Ga. App. 807 (2) (173 S. E. 730), the court said: “A power company, lawfully maintaining its power lines, constructed according to the standards of modern engineering, on one side of a public highway, is not liable for inductive interference of a telephone line on the other side of the highway, or for the cost of metallicizing the telephone line so as to prevent such interference, where the -telephone was a single-wire system, with a return circuit through the ground, which was not in accordance with the standards…