ALABAMA POWER CO. v. BERRY

6 Div. 959.

48 So.2d 231 (1950)

ALABAMA POWER CO. v. BERRY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 12, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. A. Posey, of Haleyville, and Martin, Turner & McWhorter and J. C. Blakey, of Birmingham, for appellant.

Weaver & Johnson, of Haleyville, for appellee.


SIMPSON, Justice.

The judgment here reviewed is one awarding damages to S. L. Berry, a minor who sues by his father as next friend, for serious and painful injuries alleged to have been caused by accidentally and unknowingly walking against or stepping upon a wire which was dangling or hanging down from defendant's high-voltage electric power transmission line, while he was cutting corn tops in his father's cornfield. Suit was filed some six years after the alleged...

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