Pinewoob Gin Co. v. Carolina Power & Light Co.

ORDER

SIMONS, District Judge.

Pinewood Gin Company commenced this action in the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, seeking actual and punitive damages in the sum of $50,000 arising from the destruction of its cotton by fire. The plaintiff alleges negligence and recklessness on the part of Carolina Power and Light Company in that it allowed two overhead secondary power lines to come into contact directly over the gin yard of plaintiff’s cotton gin causing sparks which ignited and destroyed $10,500.00 worth of cotton directly below these lines.' Defendant thereupon removed…