Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. James Earl Byrd

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

On the first appeal in this case, Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., 4 Cir., 215 F.2d 542, we held that the Cooperative was not a charitable organization free from liability for torts of its agents and remanded the case for trial on its merits. The trial resulted in a judgment of $126,786.80 in favor of Byrd, who lost both forearms when he accidentally came in contact with a live wire while on a construction project extending the Blue Ridge system in South Carolina. Blue Ridge appealed and we reversed the judgment and directed the entry of the judgment…