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CITY OF CHATTANOOGA v. ROGERS

299 S.W.2d 660 (1956)

CITY OF CHATTANOOGA v. Mildred ROGERS, Adm'x.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 7, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Allen Wilkerson, Will F. Chamlee, and Jac Chambliss, Chattanooga, for petitioner.

Harry Berke and Crawford Bean, Chattanooga, for respondent.

BURNETT, Justice.

This is another electrocution case in which the plaintiff's intestate was electrocuted. While working on the erection of a building a crane either came in contact with the high tension wires of the City or the current arced or jumped from those wires onto the crane and into the body of the deceased. At the first trial of the case the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant. On appeal this was reversed, as

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