ALABAMA POWER COMPANY v. TATUM

SC 632 and SC 946.

306 So.2d 251 (1975)

ALABAMA POWER COMPANY v. Jimmy Ray TATUM. ALABAMA POWER COMPANY v. Clarence TATUM.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 9, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne, Williams & Ward, Harold A. Bowron, Jr., and John P. Scott, Jr., Birmingham, for appellant.

C. Lee Reeves, Birmingham, for appellees.


JONES, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Alabama Power Company, from a judgment for the plaintiffs ($35,000 for personal injury to nine-year-old Jimmy Ray Tatum and $5,000 for the derivative action by his father, Clarence Tatum), who alleged that their injuries and damages proximately resulted from the negligence of defendant in maintaining its electrical power lines through a tree which the boy was climbing when he was electrically burned.

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