Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Scogin

136 Ga. App. 318 (1975)

221 S.E.2d 203

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY

v.

SCOGIN et al.

50736.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Argued May 21, 1975.

Decided September 24, 1975.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1975.

Jones, Cork, Miller & Benton, H. Jerome Strickland, for appellant.

Adams, O'Neal, Hemingway, Kaplan, Stone & Brown, H. T. O'Neal, Jr., Manley F. Brown, for appellees.

STOLZ, Judge.

Plaintiff Scogin sued Southern Bell for damages for personal injuries he sustained when on August 15, 1970, he struck two telephone wires erected and maintained by the defendant over a county road, while the…