Lawson v. City of Chattanooga

This action was filed by the plaintiff, Willie Mae Lawson, a widow, against the City of Chattanooga to recover damages for the death of her husband, Lou David Lawson, a plumber, age 25, who was accidentally electrocuted on February 5, 1951, by coming in eon-*311tact with, an electrically charged gas pipe while repairing the plumbing under the bathroom of the house owned by Robert R. Johnson, at 509 Lansing Street, in the City of Chattanooga.

Plaintiff’s declaration is in six counts, five of them alleging that the defendant City, through its Electric Power Board, was guilty of acts of common law…