Kent v. Interstate Public Service Co.
Indiana Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the CourtNichols, J.
— Appellant, at the time of the accidental death of her fourteen-year-old son, was his sole custodial parent. This action by her against appellee is for his death caused by his coming in contact with an uninsulated electric transmission wire maintained by appellee in a public highway directly paralleling and within thirty inches of a large iron bridge girder and trusswork forming the side and east upright of a bridge, but approximately twenty feet above the floor, to the top of which girder the son had climbed. There was a trial which resulted in a verdict and judgment for appellee.
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