BLACKWELL v. ALABAMA POWER COMPANY

1 Div. 885.

152 So.2d 670 (1963)

Braxton B. BLACKWELL v. ALABAMA POWER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, for appellant.

Inge, Twitty & Duffy, Thos. E. Twitty, Mobile, and Martin, Vogtle, Balch & Bingham, Harold Bowron, Jr., Birmingham, for appellee.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from judgment for defendant in action for wrongful death of plaintiff's twelve-year-old son, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the intestate, who was allegedly killed as the proximate result of the negligence of defendant in maintaining its electric wires through a tree which the boy was climbing when he met his death.

At defendant's request, the court gave the following written charge:

"1. (a) The...

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