Supreme Court of Alabama May 20, 1909 (Sheffield Co. v. Morton)

SAYRE, J.

This case went to the jury on counts 3 and 5 of the complaint. There can be no doubt but that, to maintain an uninsulated wire charged with a dangerous current of electricity in a public place and in such proximity to the ground that persons passing may come into contact with it, without more, constitutes negligence. “Res ipsa loquitur.” In Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Jones, 133 Ala.