Glenn v. Reynolds Spring Co.

The defendant Reynolds Spring Company installed a department for the manufacture of radio outfits in its plant in the city of Jackson in 1922. Electric wires for testing purposes were dropped from the ceiling. Claimants’ decedent, Ross Glenn, was employed there as a sweeper, collecting the refuse and dirt with a wheelbarrow. At the noon hour on January 24, 1923, some of his fellow employees connected the live electric wires with the handles of the wheelbarrow and when Glenn, resuming his work, took hold of the handles he received a shock which caused his death. There was no intent to injure…