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CHEROKEE ELEC. CO-OP. v. COCHRAN

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706 So.2d 1188 (1997)

CHEROKEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE v. Douglas M. COCHRAN, as administrator of the estate of John Ray Cochran, deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Livingston and John F. Porter III of Livingston & Porter, Scottsboro, for appellant.

Robert G. Wilson, David C. Wear, and Nikki Parrish Scott of Wear & Wilson, P.A., Fort Payne; and James S. Hubbard, Anniston, for appellee.

J. Theodore Jackson, Jr., Ronald G. Davenport, and Rachel Sanders-Cochran of Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, P.A., Montgomery, for amicus curiae Alabama Rural Elec. Ass'n, in support of appellant.

J. Robin Rogers of Strang, Fletcher, Carriger, Walker, Hodge & Smith, P.L.L.C., Chattanooga, TN, for amicus curiae Tennessee Valley Public Power Ass'n.

MADDOX, Justice.

Cherokee Electric Cooperative ("Cherokee") appeals from a $3 million judgment of the DeKalb County Circuit Court; that judgment was based upon a jury verdict for Douglas M. Cochran, as administrator of the estate of John Ray Cochran, on a wrongful death claim. We affirm.

On November 29, 1991, a brush fire or woods fire occurred on Gray Hollow Road in a rural section of DeKalb County. John Ray Cochran...

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