Legal Opinion

Southwestern Gas Electric Company v. Deshazo

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided February 26, 1940No. 4-5796PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.

Mrs. Deshazo filed a suit against three farmers residing in Howard county and against the two appellants, named above, and procured a judgment of $2,000 on account of alleged negligence, .causing her rather severe injuries. The three farmer defendants out a green pine tree, growing’ upon the land of one of them. It stood ábout fourteen or fifteen feet off the- fifty foot right-of-way of the Southwestern Gas & Electric Company, and nearly or -about forty feet from the nearest line which was charged with electricity of 33,000 volts. The long distance telephone lines of the Southwestern Bell…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Pittsburg Reduction Co. v. HortonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
  2. Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. CatesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1930
  3. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. BraggSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1901
  4. Bona v. Thomas Auto Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1919
  5. Morgan v. CockrellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1927

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Day v. National US Radiator CorporationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1961
  2. Ramsouer v. Midland Valley R. Co.District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1942
  3. Berry v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1960
  4. Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976
  5. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Fort Smith v. HicksSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949

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