Ex Parte Todd Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co.

The trial court has made a fair statement of the evidence and we think it supports the finding and judgment of the court that the deceased workman came to his death by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.

The evidence shows a contact between a young and apparently vigorous man and an electrical appliance carrying a sufficient voltage, if short-circuited through his body, to cause his death. This contact, with its lethal potentiality, and with its actual sequence of instant death, presents, we think, a rational suggestion of cause and effect-— a reasonable inference…