Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Whitescarver

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal from a recovery of $7,500 for the negligent electrocution of one Whites-carver, the Miss.-sippi Power & Light Company assigns as error the exclusion as evidence of an extract from a book and the refusal to direct the verdict in its favor. The declaration alleged as negligence among other things that the company maintained its power wires, carrying 13,000 volts, at an insufficient height where the death occurred, and that its representatives who were present just beforehand and knew what Whitesearver was about to do and the danger in it did not stop or warn…