Dunn v. Jackson Purchase Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Dallas Dunn received serious injuries from electrical shock while engaged in inserting a length of copper pipe into a water well. High voltage lines of the Jackson Purchase Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation ran through the top branches of a tree in the vicinity of the well. The pipe which Dunn was handling either came in direct contact with the power lines or it received an electrical charge by contact with branches of the tree which had become energized by reason of their closeness to the power lines. On the theory that his injuries were caused by negligence of the…