Georgia Power Co. v. Edmunds

GARDNER, Justice.

Plaintiff recovered of the defendant,, Georgia Power Company, a judgment for the destruction of his house and contents by fire. The gravamen of his cause of action rests in the alleged negligence of defendant in causing or allowing a wire or wires of its transmission line, while heavi ly charged with high-voltage electric current, to fall or come in contact with plaintiff’s dwelling house, setting fire thereto and destroying the same.

The refusal to defendant of the affirmative charge, with hypothesis, constitutes the vital assignment of error here presented.

The fire occurred…