Hines v. Nichols

This is an action by appellee against appellant for damages arising out of the death of appellee’s decedent, which occurred while he was working for appellant as a lineman, stringing wires in his railroad yards in the city of Indianapolis, by reason of an electric shock received from a high-voltage wire with which he came in contact. The complaint is in a single *448paragraph, and alleges, in addition to the fact of his employment, the conditions surrounding his work, the death of said decedent, and the acts of negligence on the part of appellant, which were the proximate cause thereof; that…