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081231P.pdf   10/14/2008  Robert Koch  v.  Southwestern Electric Power Co
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1231
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Bowman and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - torts. Fact that utility did not receive formal notification
   required by Arkansas statute regarding festival did not negate utility's
   common law duty; applying common law duty analysis, decedents'
   accident occurred under unusual circumstances about which defendant
   had no notice and was unforeseeable; as a result, defendant had no legal
   duty towards plaintiffs' decedents.