Georgia Power Co. v. Stonecypher

The plaintiff in this case contends that the defective construction of a transformer and the* failure to maintain the equipment at the point designated in plaintiff’s petition was the proximate cause of the injury to the plaintiff. He contends that this transformer was an old transformer; that it was defective in that no lightning arrester was placed at either of these poles; that no proper ground-wires were placed there, and that in July, 1930, when in his house in the exercise of ordinary care, lightning flashed and came from this transformer in question and went into his house, and that he…