Several months after a jury cleared textile giant Milliken & Co. of liability in the death of one of five people killed when a corporate jet hit a power pole at its Thomson, Georgia, plant, its lawyers were at the state Supreme Court debating whether Georgia Power Co. can be forced to bear liability for damages in other cases stemming to the crash.

A Fulton County judge and the Court of Appeals ruled that Georgia Power could not be held liable for damages even though it erected and maintained the power pole, despite a 1989 “hold harmless” agreement it signed with Milliken to assume responsibility for any damages related to the erection of the pole and power lines.

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