Teague v. Duke Power Company

Plaintiffs offered the evidence of Mrs. Teague that when Mr. Brown came to cut the wire after the fire he first told her the wires from the pole to the house were not energized, but a short time later he same back to say “that those wires were hot, and he couldn’t understand what the boys meant by running the wires to the house; it was a fuse job, after the wires had been completed and it has been inspected.” Defendants’ objection to this evidence was sustained, and its exclusion constitutes plaintiffs’ first assignment of error. The evidence was clearly incompetent.

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