Opinion
55348.
ARGUED FEBRUARY 7, 1978.
DECIDED FEBRUARY 24, 1978.
Action for damages. Cobb Superior Court. Before Judge Ravan.
Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman Ashmore, Robert L. Pennington, Frederick E. Link, for appellant.
Lewis, Bynum Kell, T. J. Lewis, Jr., for appellee.
Worthington, a senior in high school, having decided that he would prefer to drink beer and smoke marijuana than attend classes, climbed some 45 feet into the air on Georgia Power Company's transmission tower, received an electrical shock from the high-tension wires and fell to the ground. Finding his path to a money judgment blocked not only by general principles of negligence law but also by their specific application in Crosby v. Savannah Elec. c. Co., 114 Ga. App. 193 ( 150 S.E.2d 563) (1966), Worthington contends that the attractive nuisance or "turntable" doctrine should be extended to electric line towers. The issue has been decided adversely to him in Ryckeley v. Ga. Power Co., 122 Ga. App. 107 ( 176 S.E.2d 493) (1970), and we decline to depart from it here. Accordingly the denial of summary judgment to Georgia Power must be reversed, this court having previously granted leave to take an immediate appeal under Code Ann. § 6-701 (a) 2.
Judgment reversed. Quillian, P. J., and McMurray, J., concur.