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SHAFER v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

No. 45016.

295 S.W.2d 109 (1956)

Edith Joyce SHAFER, Administratrix of the Estate of Henry Raymond Shafer, Deceased, Appellant-Respondent, v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, and American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a Corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 2.

November 12, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glennon T. Moran, St. Louis, George J. Moran, Moran & Beatty, Granite City, Ill., of counsel, for plaintiff-appellant.

John S. Divilbiss, John Mohler, Donald H. Sharp, St. Louis, for appellant, South-western Bell Tel. Co.

Dearing & Richeson, Will B. Dearing, Hillsboro, for respondent American Tel. & Tel. Co.

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

On the 14th day of July, 1952, Henry Raymond Shafer, then twenty-two years of age, met his death by electrocution. At the time he was an employee of Western Electric Company, a contractor engaged by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (hereafter referred to as "Bell"), and was working in the Beaumont exchange building in St. Louis, Missouri.

This suit for wrongful death was brought against Bell and also against American Telephone and...

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