Trammell v. Georgia Power Co.

In 1932, the plaintiff brought suit for damages on account of the destruction of the plaintiff’s telephone business resulting from the erection by the defendant of its power lines adjacent to, over upon and across the telephone lines of the plaintiff, so close thereto and in such a negligent and careless manner as to allow electricity to escape from its wires to the plaintiff’s telephone lines, and disrupt and interfere with the plaintiff’s telephone service, ultimately destroying it. The plaintiff alleged that the wires were so constructed by the defendant in the year 1927, and that…