City of Thomasville v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Thomasville — Judge W. H. Hammond. March 1, 1915.
1Opinion of the Court
■Wade, J.
1. Considering the petition as a whole, it is apparent that recovery is sought for the homicide of the minor son of the plaintiff because of negligence on the part of the defendant in so maintaining and operating an electric-lighting plant for hire that a dangerous current of high voltage was thereby permitted to pass from the primary conducting wires to secondary wires, intended only for the passage of an innocuous current of low voltage, which the deceased had a right to anticipate would alone be allowed to enter the secondary wires, which current of high voltage entered his body…
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