Legal Opinion
Citizens Electric Light & Power Co. v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 10, 1915Published
'Action for damages. Before Judge George. Crisp superior court. August 23, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
X. If, during a rainy night, an electric-light company, upon being informed of a leakage of electricity diverted from its feed wires to a “supporting or guy wire” leading from the top of one of the company’s poles to an anchorage in the ground near the sidewalk in a city, thus charging the guy wire with electricity and endangering" the lives of persons passing along the walk, ordered its lineman to remove the danger; and if, in order to do so, it was necessary for the lineman to climb the pole and cut the guy wire near the top, which he proceeded to do; and if, upon cutting the guy wire, the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ocean Steamship Co. v. MatthewsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1890
- Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. CovingtonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1913
- Munroe v. LeyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1907
- Combs v. Delaware & Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907