Johnson v. Mississippi Power Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action begun in October, 1932, by the appellants, the widow and two minor children of James M. Johnson, deceas*546ed — the two minors suing by their mother, the other appellant, as next friend — to recover damages for the death of the deceased by drowning while he was acting as an employee of the appellee, the death being attributed to negligence chargeable against the appel-lee in furnishing a boat or skiff too small to be safe for use by the deceased in doing work incident to repairing wires and cross-arms on poles in the West Pascagoula river which he was…