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BLUE RIDGE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE v. BYRD

No. 7183.

264 F.2d 689 (1958)

BLUE RIDGE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, Inc., Appellant, v. James Earl BYRD, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1958.

On Rehearing March 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray R. Williams and Wesley M. Walker, Greenville, S. C. (Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, and Williams & Henry, Greenville, S. C. on brief), for appellant.

Henry Hammer and Henry H. Edens, Columbia, S. C. (William E. Chandler, Jr., Columbia, S. C. on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and BRYAN, District Judge.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

On the first appeal in this case, Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., 4 Cir., 215 F.2d 542, we held that the Cooperative was not a charitable organization free from liability for torts of its agents and remanded the case for trial on its merits. The trial resulted in a judgment of $126,786.80 in favor of Byrd, who lost both forearms when he accidentally came in contact with a live wire while...

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