KINGSPORT UTILITIES v. BROWN


299 S.W.2d 656 (1955)

KINGSPORT UTILITIES, Inc., B. & S. Welding & Supply Co. v. Lawrence BROWN. KINGSPORT UTILITIES, Inc., B. & S. Welding & Supply Co. v. Arlon SHELTON. KINGSPORT UTILITIES, Inc., B. & S. Welding & Supply Co. v. Billie DAVIS. KINGSPORT UTILITIES, Inc., B. & S. Welding & Supply Co. v. Frank AUSTIN. KINGSPORT UTILITIES, Inc., B. & S. Welding & Supply Co. v. Bobby WALLACE

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Filed March 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Penn, Hunter, Smith & Davis, Kingsport, for Kingsport Utilities, Inc.

Minter, McLellan & Tipton, Kingsport, Hodges & Doughty, Knoxville, and John R. Todd, Jr., Kingsport, for Welding & Supply Co.

Harry L. Garrett, Kingsport, for Lawrence Brown.

Dodson & Dodson, Kingsport, for Shelton, Davis, Austin & Wallace.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

Petitions for certiorari have been filed by Kingsport Utilities, Inc., and B. & S. Welding & Supply Company, complaining of the action of the Court of Appeals by the majority opinion in affirming judgments in their behalf against these two petitioners for injuries arising out of electrical shock and burns when the cable of a crane either arced with a 12,000 volt line or came in contact with it, and injured these five workmen and killed the...

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