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GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF ALABAMA v. CORNISH

S.C. 199.

280 So.2d 541 (1973)

GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF ALABAMA, a corporation, v. Lucy R. CORNISH, Administratrix of the Estate of Ina Lucille Riley, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 2, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. A. Smith, Hartford, Alto V. Lee, III, Dothan, for appellant.

Truman Hobbs and Albert W. Copeland, Montgomery, James W. Kelly, Geneva, for appellee.

HARWOOD, Justice.

This was an action for wrongful death filed by Lucy Cornish, as administratrix of the estate of Ina Lucille Riley, against General Telephone Company, in the Circuit Court of Geneva County, Alabama.

The complaint consisted of one count charging that the defendants, General Telephone Company and X Corporation, a fictitious defendant, were guilty of negligence in the erection, maintenance and installation of telephone service so as to permit...

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