Bannister v. City of Monroe

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

REYNOLDS, J.

This is a suit by William H. Bannister and his wife against the City of Monroe to recover $15,000.00 damages alleged to have been sustained by them in the death of their minor son Troy Ellsworth Bannister, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in failing to keep its electric light wire *183properly insulated and in allowing a “live wire” to come in contact with a chain that thereby became heavily charged with electricity and came within three or four feet of the sidewalk and which killed plaintiffs’ son by his coming in contact with the…