Hill v. Carolina Power & Light Co.

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

This appeal is from a judgment for actual damages in favor of the plaintiff, T. T. Hill, who was an employee of PI. J. Skinner, an independent contractor engaged in erecting a warehouse on property of the Nu-Idea Furniture Company in Sumter, South Carolina. Hill was a carpenter, and his injuries were received while he was working on the top of the building under construction, from an alleged disruptive discharge of electricity which arced to his body from an overhead heavily charged uninsulated wire maintained by the…