Scoggins v. Southwestern Electric Service Company

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages brought by G. P. Scoggins and wife, Alice Jim Scog-gins, for the death of Patricia Ann Scog-gins, their daughter. Appellants brought this suit under the provisions of Art. 4671, Vernon’s Ann.Tex. Civ.St., more commonly known as the Wrongful Death Act. In their petition, they alleged that their daughter, Patricia Ann Scoggins, age 20, on June 13, 1966, was electrocuted to death when the mast of a sailboat in which she was riding on Lake Jacksonville struck an uninsulated power line owned and maintained by the defendant, Southwestern Electric…