Ark. Utilities Co. v. Pipkin, Judge

Milton Caven filed suit in the Phillips circuit court against the Arkansas Utilities Company alleging that on July 27,1939, and for a number of years prior thereto, he was employed by the defendant at its power plant in the city of Helena in its engine and boiler room; his duties were the operation of the machines and engines used in said plant for the generation of electrical power and his salary was $135 a month; that on the morning of July 27th about 11 o’clock, while he was engaged in performing his duties during a thunderstorm, lightning struck the said plant and the distributive system,…