Rogers v. City of Chattanooga

Plaintiff brought a suit for damages for the death by accidental electrocution of her husband, Ollie Y. Rogers, who was killed- on November 12, 1952, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The deceased was employed with a number of workmen in unloading some steel from a parked truck at the site of the erection of an annex to the building occupied by Mertland-Hedges Company located at the corner of Main and Madison Streets in Chattanooga. The accident occurred just south of the parent building and on the east side of Madison Street.

The question presented on this appeal is whether or not the Trial Court…