MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT CO. v. WHITESCARVER

No. 6790.

68 F.2d 928 (1934)

MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT CO. v. WHITESCARVER et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcellus Green, Garner Wynn Green, and Forrest B. Jackson, all of Jackson, Miss., and R. L. Dent, of Vicksburg, Miss., for appellant.

J. F. Barbour, of Yazoo City, Miss., for appellees.

Before BRYAN, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal from a recovery of $7,500 for the negligent electrocution of one Whitescarver, the Mississippi Power & Light Company assigns as error the exclusion as evidence of an extract from a book and the refusal to direct the verdict in its favor. The declaration alleged as negligence among other things that the company maintained its power wires, carrying 13,000 volts, at an insufficient height where the death occurred, and that its...

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