Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Nail

SMITH, Justice.

Mississippi Power & Light Company has appealed from, a judgment recovered against it in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Tallahatchie County in a wrongful death action brought by the surviving widow and child of John Nail, deceased.

Mississippi Power is a public utility engaged in generating and distributing electric energy and maintains a number of substations throughout its system, one of which is located near Webb, Mississippi.

At the time of his tragic death by electrocution at the Webb substation on March 11, 1966, Nail was twenty-eight years of age,…