Lindamood v. Potomac Light & Power Co.

Poffenbarger, Judge :

This writ challenges the correctness of an order setting aside a verdict for the defendant in an action predicated on allegations of wrongful death, on the ground of newly discovered evidence.

A statement in detail of the evidence adduced upon the trial' and the procedure in the action is unnecessary. Plaintiff’s decedent, her husband, was killed in the plant of the Dunn Woolen Company, while there engaged in work as an employee of that company, by an electric current or by a fall occasioned in some unknown way. He was alive but unconscious, when found, and died…