UPTON v. MAGNOLIA ELEC. POWER ASS'N

No. 57054.

511 So.2d 939 (1987)

Elizabeth F. UPTON, Administratrix of Estate of Jeffery Leonard Faggard, Deceased, v. MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garland D. Upton, Columbia, for appellant.

J.W. Land, Bryan, Nelson, Allen Schroeder & Randolph, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This wrongful death action arises out of a fatal electrocution accident as a young high school graduate encountered a power line on his grandmother's property. Though the dead boy's mother has sued the power company, the evidence wholly failed to show that the lines or the electricity were owned by the power company or that it negligently did or failed to do anything that caused the fatal accident.

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