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TURNER v. VICTORIA COUNTY ELEC. CO-OP. CO.

No. 4697.

428 S.W.2d 484 (1968)

Thomas Clyde TURNER, Appellant, v. VICTORIA COUNTY ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Whitlow, Whitlow, Cole & Kilgore, Victoria, for appellant.

O. F. Jones, Guittard, Henderson, Jones & Lewis, Harry Maddin, Cullen, Mallette, Maddin, Edwards & Williams, Victoria, for appellees.

OPINION

WILSON, Justice.

Plaintiff sought damages from the owner of a house for injuries resulting from an electrical shock when he touched a transmission line while roofing the house.

The jury found plaintiff's injuries were proximately caused by the owner's negligence in locating the house so that a portion thereof was under a power company's transmission line, in failing to inspect the house to determine the proximity of the line and in failing...

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