LEVI v. S.W. LA. ELEC. MEMBERSHIP CO-OP.

No. 88-C-1426.

542 So.2d 1081 (1989)

Giovanni LEVI v. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP COOPERATIVE (SLEMCO) and Federal Rural Electric Insurance Corporation.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Dismissed May 26, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.J. McKernan, McKernan & Associates, DeVan D. Daggett, Baton Rouge, Joseph Bailey, Logansport, Charles L. Hardy, III, Antoon & Dalrymple, Alexandria, for applicant.

Robert R. McBride, McBride, Foret, Rozas and Leonard, Lafayette, for respondents.


DENNIS, Justice.

The issue here is whether a power company's conduct in operating an uninsulated 14,400 volt electric distribution line 40.5 feet from an oil well and suspended 25.7 feet over the well's only access road or driveway together with the power company's knowledge that oil field workers regularly serviced the well with a mast or boom erectable to a height of 34 feet affixed to a 19 foot long truck, constituted negligence because there was an unreasonable...

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