City of Chattanooga v. Rogers

This is another electrocution case in which the plaintiff’s intestate was electrocuted. While working on the erection of a building a crane either came in contact with the high tension wires of the City or the current arced or jumped from those wires onto the crane and into the body of the deceased. At the first trial of the case the trial judge directed' a verdict for the defendant.. Oh appeal this was reversed, as is shown by the reported case in Tenn. App., 281 S.W.2d 504, and the canse, rev manded for a new'trial. The canse came on for trial the second time and resulted in a verdict for…