Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Scogin

Stolz, Judge.

Plaintiff Scogin sued Southern Bell for damages for personal injuries he sustained when on August 15, 1970, he struck two telephone wires erected and maintained by the defendant over a county road, while the plaintiff and another young man, the driver’s son, were sitting on top of a load of bales of hay which they had loaded onto the driver’s pickup truck from the driver’s fields and which were being transported to the driver’s barn. The driver was made a third-party defendant.

From the showing on the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, it appeared that the wires, which were…