Teddleton v. Florida Power Light Company

The writ of error herein was taken to a judgment for defendant upon a directed verdict for defendant after plaintiff’s testimony had been adduced. A farm laborer between twenty and twenty-one years of age was killed by an electric shock from a low sagging electric wire of the power company over the place where such laborer was using a ten-foot metal rod with a chain on the loose end and attached to a motor tractor in marking rows for planting sunflower seed. This action was brought by the administrator of the deceased laborer’s estate under Sections 7047 (4960), 7048 (4961), C. G. L. See…