New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co. v. Eary

Hatcher, Judge :

For damages for the death of his wife from contact with an electrically charged wire fence, C. W. Duncan, as her administrator, brought an action at law against Appalachian Electric Power Company. Pending trial of that action, the Power Company paid the administrator $6,000.00 and he (with the written consent of all the distributees of the deceased) executed a release discharging the Power Company of all the claims and demands asserted against it in said action. Following that compromise, the administrator brought a like action against New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal…