Herndon v. Aultman-Beasley, Inc.

Stolz, Judge.

Herndon sued Georgia Power Company and

Aultman-Beasley, Inc., to recover for fire damage to his property resulting from the spread of fire from the nearby electrical transmission line right-of-way of the defendant power company, which had contracted with the defendant contractor to clear away and burn with brush burning equipment the brush within the right-of-way. It was alleged that the contractor buried the residue of the burned brush underground, but that its earth-moving equipment uncovered some of the buried smoldering embers, which the wind caused to ignite into a fire,…