Legal Opinion
Blakeney v. Alabama Power Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 5, 1931No. 1 Div. 619PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBouldin, J.
The suit is by a father to recover damages for the death of his minor son under the homicide act (Code 1923, § 5696).
George H. Blakeney, Jr., 12 years of age, while playing on the premises of Mrs. Brunson in Mobile August 7, 1929, went under the residence to recover a ball, and was there electrocuted.
His death is charged to the negligence of defendant, in that, while under contract to supply the residence with electric current of low voltage for domestic purposes, a current not dangerous to human life, the wires on said premises were negligently charged with a current of voltage far in excess…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Cross v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
- American Ry. Express Co. v. ReidSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
- B'ham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. CockrumSupreme Court of Alabama · 1912
- Brown v. Mobile Electric Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1921
- Cooper v. CarrMichigan Supreme Court · 1910
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3Cited by41 opinions
- Vincent E. Jenkins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1962
- State v. CypherIdaho Supreme Court · 1968
- Hagler v. GillilandSupreme Court of Alabama · 1974
- State v. LaFeraSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1964
- Defore v. Bourjois, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1958
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