Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. Hoover

J. T. Hoover, a young man twenty-one years of age and unmarried, was killed in the town of Brinkley, Arkansas, about; seven o'clock P.M., November 29, 1928, by coming in contact with a live wire carrying 2,300 volts of electricity.

Appellant owned and used wires charged with electricity in the, operation and maintenance of a power and light system in the town of Brinkley.

It is alleged that the appellant, its agents and servants, had carelessly and negligently allowed and permitted its electric light wires on Main Street of the town of Brinkley to become broken and to fall on and across the…