Carroll Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Carlton

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a jury’s verdict that the acts of an electrical crew, which negligently repaired a power pole fourteen hours after a car struck the pole, were the intervening cause of a house fire that resulted from downed power lines
• “An award of punitive damages is justified only where the evidence indicates that the defendant acted wantonly in causing the injury ....”

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