American General Ins. v. Southwestern Gas & Electric Co.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Julius Jesse Jones was a laborer employed by the Texas Bitulithic Company. On Tuly 23, 1937, he was working with a drag-*707line crew on the Kilgore-Carlisle Highway-in Rusk County, Texas. His crew had been working about four hours placing tile in a culvert when the operator of the drag-line, in attempting to place another section of tile in the culvert, swung his metal crane or boom in contact with or in close proximity to highly charged electric lines belonging to Southwestern Gas & Electric Company. -When the crane made contact with the wires, a current of electricity…