Estate of Vaughn v. Pike Electric, LLC

STEPHENS, Judge.

Factual and Procedural Background

This case arises from the death of Gary Vaughn (“Decedent”). He was electrocuted on 29 October 2009 while working as a groundman for Defendants Pike Electric, LLC and Pike Electric, Inc. (collectively, “Pike Electric”) and died as a result of that injury. Almost three years later, on 4 October 2012, Decedent’s surviving spouse and the administratrix of his estate, Tammy Vaughn (“Plaintiff’), filed a negligence complaint against Pike Electric and Decedent’s supervisor, Defendant Kineth Penland (“Penland”), in Rutherford County Superior Court.1

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