Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. Hubbard

This suit was brought by the appellee, Nettie Hubbard, to recover damages for personal injuries received from contact with appellee’s high-powered transmission line. There was a judgment in the court below for $5,000 in favor of the appellee, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

’The testimony regarding the alleged negligence of the appellant in the maintenance of its lines is in conflict, that upon the part of the appellant tending to show that the line was properly erected and maintained, the wires being the ordinary and suitable distance above the surface of the ground, having no slack…