Markovich v. Jefferson Coal & Coke Corp.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This appeal by the defendant is from a judgment obtained by the plaintiffs in an action of trespass brought to recover damages for the death of their 16 year old son, Edward Markovich. The boy was electrocuted about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, November 28, 1937, by coming in contact with a high voltage, uninsulated wire which had been carried down by a dead beech tree falling across the path along which he and an older sister, Mrs. Zebrasky, were walking. The wires in possession of, and controlled by, the defendant were strung on poles 8 to 12 feet high located in the…