Ferguson v. Pinson

Haymond, Judge:

Sometime before noon on June 6, 1945, Russell Ferguson, a young unmarried man twenty four years of age, while engaged in placing a machine for use in drilling a well for water on land occupied by Lowell Sellards in Wayne County, was instantly killed by an electric shock when a part of the metallic equipment with which he was working came in contact with a high tension wire suspended above the location of the machine. The plaintiff, G. L. Ferguson, the father of the deceased, as administrator of his estate, instituted this action of trespass on the case in the Circuit Court of…