144 Ga. 124 | Ga. | 1915
Walker brought suit against Central Georgia Power Company, to recover damages for personal injuries. He alleged, that the defendant corporation maintained a substation in Spalding county; in which electricity of high voltage was reduced and distributed from the substation to the defendant’s customers and elsewhere; that in this building the defendant had an office for transacting business, and, having occasion to transact with the agent of the defendant'in charge of the substation some- business in which the defendant was interested, the plaintiff went to the building for that purpose, and the agent, being .engaged with other matters when he went in, invited petitioner to go up-stairs into what is known as the “high-tension gallery,” where were located certain metal tanks, attached to the top of each of which were porcelain insulators that insulate the copper or metal conductors that conduct the electricity from the transmission-lines into the tanks or oil-switches; that at the top of each of said insulators were metal caps about six inches in diameter, which were not insulated, though this fact was not known to petitioner; that while in said room viewing this apparatus, in company with a lady, petitioner, being ignorant of and having received no warning of the dangerous character of the same, reached out his hand by way of indicating, and a current of electricity, from one of the metal caps arced and passed
Clearly there was. nothing in the character of the duties here stated to give to this person in charge of the substation the actual, or even the apparent, authority to invite any visitor to come upon the premises for any purpose other than to attend to some business connected with those things which were within the scope of the agency as defined in this extract from his testimony. We can not perceive in it any actual, or even apparent, authority to invite or to license a person to go into the upper story of the building. If the plaintiff was actually on the premises for the purpose of having a
4. It is unnecessary to pass upon the question of the alleged disqualification of a certain juror, as this contingency will not arise upon the next trial.
5. The rulings of the court upon questions as to the admission and exclusion of evidence are not erroneous for any of the reasons assigned.
Judgment reversed.