Afton Electric Co. v. Harrison

Blume, Justice.

In this case Gean Harrison, as administratrix of the estate of Mack Harrison, deceased, recovered judgment from the Afton Electric Corporation, on account of the death of the deceased, in the sum of $3,500, from which judgment the Electric Corporation has appealed by way of the proceeding in error.

The deceased was a boy just under ten years of age. On May 18th, 1930, he was playing with one Carlos Proctor, a boy of about the same age, the game of Tarzan of the Apes. The deceased climbed an electric light pole, came in contact with uninsulated wires about fifteen feet from the…