Parsons v. Appalachian Electric Power Co.

Kenna, Judge:'

Densil Duty, a boy of eleven years of age and plaintiff’s decedent, lost his life on the 27th day of September, 1932, by comihg in contact with a high tension electric wire carrying 6600 volts owned and maintained by the defendant, Appalachian Electric Power Company, and stretched across a public bridge over the Guyandotte River at Chapmansville in Logan County. The bridge carried both vehicular and foot traffic and was in three spans' with a steel superstructure: The largest span was in the middle, a smaller span was on the Chapmansville side of the bridge, and the smallest…