FLORIDA POWER CORP. v. CONTINENTAL TESTING LAB. INC.

No. 70-185.

243 So.2d 195 (1971)

FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION, Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL TESTING LABORATORIES, INC., a Florida Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alton G. Pitts, of Pitts, Eubanks & Ross, Orlando, for appellant.

Monroe E. McDonald, of Sanders, McEwan, Mims & McDonald, Orlando, for appellee.


OWEN, Judge.

Appellant, a public utility supplying electrical power, was held liable for the damage to a customer's electrical motor due to a phase failure caused by the utility's negligence. The appeal is from a money judgment following a non-jury trial.

A line crew from the power company was working on power lines near the customer's premises in the course of which two wires momentarily made contact, causing a power failure and a condition known as "single...

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