Mississippi Power Co. v. Archibald

The intestate, James V. Swearingen, received an electric shock while engaged in throwing a piece of baling, wire over the 2,300 volt electric transmission lines of the distribution system belonging to the state of Mississippi, and constituting a part of the East Mississippi Insane Hospital property at Meridian, in Lauderdale county, Mississippi, and from which shock and injury he later died.

It may be assumed for the purposes of this decision, and as the testimony tends to show, that the deceased had a fixed place of residence in Kemper county, Mississippi, at the time of his death, although…