Dalby v. Hercules, Inc.

DREW W. LUTEN, Jr., Special Judge.

Plaintiff, then 35 years of age, received indisputably severe and disabling electrical burns and injuries on November 9, 1965, while blasting rock from the basement excavation for a house, when the wires, which ran from a dynamite charge to a truck battery providing the electrical power source to detonate the charge, were thrown into the air and against a high tension power line. He brought this suit against defendant, claiming damages of $400,000.00, and, following an adverse verdict and judgment, took this appeal.

All of the evidence as to how plaintiff’s…