Case Name: MONTGOMERY LIGHT & WATER POWER CO. v. MILLER
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1910-11-03
Citations: 182 F. 1023
Docket Number: No. 2,054
Parties: MONTGOMERY LIGHT & WATER POWER CO. v. MILLER.
Judges: Before PARDEE and SHELBY, Circuit Judges, and TOULMIN, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 182
Pages: 1023–1023

Head Matter:
MONTGOMERY LIGHT & WATER POWER CO. v. MILLER.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
November 3, 1910.)
No. 2,054.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama.
Ray Rushton and W. M. Williams, for plaintiff in error. Wm. W. Hill, W. A. Gunter, and Gaston Gunter, for defendant in error.
Before PARDEE and SHELBY, Circuit Judges, and TOULMIN, District Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The evidence of plaintiff below tended to show that the installment of electric wires, including the hanging of the chandeliers, in the residence of J. E. Dowe, was by the authority of the Montgomery Light & Water Power Company, and that said company was primarily responsible for negligence in relation thereto. While there is some evidence tending to show that the electrician, Mosely, who actually did the work, was in such matters an independent contractor, the weight of the evidence is the other way as far as the Dowe installation was concerned. The peremptory charge to find for the defendant below was properly refused. Judgment affirmed.