Porter v. Georgia Power Co.

C. O. Porter brought suit for damages in Baldwin superior court against the Georgia Power Company, which company furnished electrical power to operate the Porter Brick Company plant, and alleged: that a fire of electrical origin destroyed his brick plant on February 7, 1930, thereby damaging him in the sum of $40,000. He alleged that the defendant, in supplying him electric current, carried 3,300 volts over its transmission lines from its generating plant to a pole about five feet from the outside wall of the brick manufacturing plant, and at this place three fuses and three transformers were…