Murphy v. Carolina Power & Light Co.

One Eogers, a witness for plaintiff, was asked the following question: “Did you have any conversation with any of them, and, if so, what did they say?” A. “One of the gentlemen said to me, ‘Did it burn much?’ and I said, ‘You would have thought it burned if you could have heard it popping and cracking,’ and they said, ‘I don’t think there is any danger now, we have fixed it back.’ That is all we said.” Defendant contends this was error. We cannot so hold. This conversation took place five or ten minutes after the repair force had fixed the power line and before the repair force had gotten…