Howard v. Jackson Electric Co-Operative, Inc.

OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment that plaintiff take nothing in a suit for damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff when he came in contact with defendant’s electric wire.

Plaintiff Howard was an employee of H. H. Howell, an oil driller. Howell leased the property of DeNeefe for the purpose of storing, parking, and repairing drilling equipment. Defendant maintained a high voltage line across the DeNeefe property, and had an easement across such land since 1940, for such purpose. Plaintiff was repairing a truck attached to a drilling rig; climbed onto…