GEORGIA POWER COMPANY v. WORTHINGTON

55348.

145 Ga. App. 44 (1978)

243 S.E.2d 297

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY v. WORTHINGTON.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, Robert L. Pennington, Frederick E. Link, for appellant.

Lewis, Bynum & Kell, T. J. Lewis, Jr., for appellee.


WEBB, Judge.

Worthington, a senior in high school, having decided that he would prefer to drink beer and smoke marijuana than attend classes, climbed some 45 feet into the air on Georgia Power Company's transmission tower, received an electrical shock from the high-tension wires and fell to the ground. Finding his path to a money judgment blocked not only by general principles of negligence law but also by their specific application in Crosby v. Savannah Elec....

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