Arrington v. Town of Pinetops

The plaintiffs seek to recover damages from both defendants upon two theories:

1. That the defendant, Hookerton Terminal Company, negligently excavated around the pole, causing it to slip into the cut and thus leaving the wires, carrying an enormous voltage, only five feet above the ground and adjacent to a cultivated field.

2. That the town of Pinetops was negligent in not discovering the condition of said pole and permitting it to remain in a dangerous situation for an unreasonable length of time.

In Ellis v. Power Co., 193 N. C., 357, 137 S. E., 163, it is declared: “that electric power is an…