SIBLEY v. GIFFORD HILL AND CO., INC.

No. 84-C-1891.

475 So.2d 315 (1985)

Marilyn June Sturrock SIBLEY, et al. v. GIFFORD HILL AND COMPANY, INC., et al. Charles M. GILL, Sr. v. Pearly SIBLEY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Due', Charles William Roberts, Baton Rouge, Calvin Fayard, Denham Springs, Due', Dodson, deGravelle & Robinson, Charles Moore, Edward Walters, Moore & Walters, Baton Rouge, Joseph Simpson, Amite, for plaintiff-applicant.

Peter Dazzio, Watson, Blanche, Wilson & Posner, Baton Rouge, Andrew P. Carter, George F. Riess, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, Arthur Macy, Hammond, for defendant-respondent.


LEMMON, Justice.

This litigation involves an accident in which two people were injured, one fatally, when the boom of a crane, which was moving a steel structural frame to a construction site, came close enough to an overhead electrical transmission line that arcing occurred between the line and the boom. The question before this court is whether the public utility company that supplied electricity to the line, which was owned and maintained by a sand and gravel producer...

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