Cordell v. Kentucky-Tennessee Light & Power Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. On August 31, 1937, Joe Cordell, husband of petitioner, while working on one of defendant’s poles in Jellieo, came in contact with a wire carrying 2',300' volts of electricity severely burning his arm and shoulder. • He stated to one witness that he “had to fall to keep from being burned up.” To his physician he stated that he “got tangled up with some juice on an electric pole, electricity.” As a result of the fall he received injuries resulting in his death on September 28,1937.

The deceased had been in the employ of defendant for nearly a year and a…