Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Jones

This is an action under the homicide statute (Code 1907, § 2486), and it seeks to recover damages of the defendant for negligently or wrongfully causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. There were no eye witnesses to the circumstances surrounding the death of intestate; he was dead when found at an early hour of the morning, in or near a public street or sidewalk in the city of Huntsville. His body, when found, was lying across a broken wire of the Huntsville Railway, Light & Power Company.(1) There had been a severe electrical and wind storm in the city of Huntsville on the night…