Legal Opinion
Richmond v. Florida Power & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided May 9, 1952PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
58 So.2d 687 (1952)
RICHMOND
v.
FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO.
Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division A.
May 9, 1952.
Martin Lemlich, Miami, for appellant.
E.F.P. Brigham, Thomas C. Britton, Miami, and Phillip Goldman, Tallahassee, for appellee.
THOMAS, Justice.
Summary judgment was entered in favor of the appellee, and this appeal followed.
The utility company owned and maintained, along a street in the residential district of Hialeah, a line of wooden poles supporting uninsulated wires that transmitted electric current of high voltage. The appellant stood in his yard, a hundred feet away, and tested a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Escambia County Electric Light & Power Co. v. SutherlandSupreme Court of Florida · 1911
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