Craft v. Fordson Coal Co.

Hatcher, Judge:

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries from contact with electric wires of the defendant, Fordson Coal Company. The circuit court directed a verdict against him.

The accident occurred about five-thirty o’clock p. m., on March 16, 1932. The plaintiff was then aged eighteen years and ten months. He had climbed in play upon the roof of a building leased as a garage from the coal company by his father - (an employee of the company). Some uninsulated electric wires were strung about three feet above the ridge of the roof. After playing' (on the roof) from ten to…