City of Austin v. Johnson

BLAIR, Justice.

Appellees, Mrs. Vera Johnson, for herself and as next friend of her minor children Edith and Lillian Johnson, sued appellant, the City of Austin, for damages for the death of Edward C. Johnson, the husband and father of appellees, which resulted from his coming in contact with electricity while going upon the steel structure of appellant’s substation to replace a broken insulator or jumper. His death was alleged to have been caused by the negli gent failure of appellant and its employees (1) to disconnect the wires carrying electricity to and into the southeast corner of the…