Wilkins v. Swift

OPINION

SENTER, Chief Judge.

This personal injury action arises from an injury incurred by Plaintiff Harold Wilkins, a Tennessee Valley Authority (hereinafter TVA) employee, on March 20, 1979, while a passenger in a TVA vehicle. The accident occurred while the vehicle was being driven on an electric power transmission line access road near Burnsville, Mississippi, by Defendant Gale Swift, plaintiff’s immediate supervisor. At the time of the accident, plaintiff was performing his duties as a TVA groundman. Plaintiff subsequently applied for and was awarded compensation for his injury under the…