Pruett v. LININGER

The defendants appeal from a verdict and judgment for Leslie N. Pruett for damages resulting from severe burns inflicted by an electrical trauma in the course of his employment.

Pruett was employed as a construction worker by a partnership engaged in the general contracting business. He was working with concrete in the building of a bridge on a Jackson County road known as Ross Lane. The bridge crossed Jackson Creek parallel to an electrical transmission line. The wires were about 25 feet above the northern edge of the bridge.

On July 27, 1954, the day of the accident which gave rise to this…