Rector v. City of Nashville

The parties will be referred to as in the court below; J. C. Rector, Administrator of the estate of Burney Rector, deceased, plaintiff, and the City of Nashville and the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Nashville, Tennessee, defendants.

This suit is to recover damages against both defendants for the death of plaintiff’s intestate as the result of electrocution by coming in contact with a heavily charged light wire, alleged to have been negligently left hanging down at a drinking fountain in Morgan Park, one of the public parks in the City of Nashville.

The accident occurred on June 9,…