Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Goosby

Anna Goosby, the appellee, sued the Mississippi Power & Light Company, the appellant, for damages sustained by her because of the destruction of her house by fire, alleging negligence on the part of the appellant in the construction and maintenance of its wires charged with electricity erected over and across the roof of her house. The only plea of the appellant to the declaration was the general issue. The verdict of the jury was for $3'50.

The declaration was amended so as to sue for the value of a pecan tree in her yard destroyed by the fire.

On Christmas night, of 1938, about ten o’clock,…