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WATSON v. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY

100 S.E.2d 774 (1957)

199 Va. 570

Jacqueline P. WATSON, Administratrix, etc v. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

December 2, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Ford, Daniel W. Wilkinson, Jr., Newport News (Murray, Ford, West & Wilkinson, Newport News, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Archibald G. Robertson, Harry Frazier, III, Richmond (T. Justin Moore, Richmond, William McL. Ferguson, Newport News, Hunton, Williams, Gay, Moore & Powell, Richmond, Ferguson, Yates & Stephens, Newport News, on brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, WHITTLE, and SNEAD, JJ.

SPRATLEY, Justice.

On March 26, 1955, William McGinley Watson met instant death by electrocution while engaged in digging a well when a metal pipe, used by him and a fellow employee in connection with the digging, came in contact with an uninsulated high voltage electric wire. The electric wire was owned and controlled by the Virginia Electric and Power Company, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Vepco or the Power Company...

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