Maggard v. Appalachian Electric Power Co.

Lively, Judge:

Appalachian Electric Power Company (hereinafter called power Company) prosecutes error to a verdict and judgment, against it in favor of Carlton Maggard for personal injuries received by him cause by contact with one of its high tension wires.

On October 15, 1930, Maggard was working for a construction company as fireman on a steam shovel which moved about on caterpillars on its own power. The shovel was engaged in excavating a passageway for a state highway under the Piney Branch of the C. & 0. By. Company on Piney River at the junction of Beaver Creek with Piney River in…