Brown v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiff’s claims barred as a matter of law where he attempted to free a power line from his truck even though he knew it might carry voltage
• “ ‘[a] person cannot undertake to do what is obviously a dangerous thing and at the same time avoid the responsibility for the self-assumed risk’ ”
• truck driver climbing near electrical wires
• truck driver climbing near electrical wires

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).