Show big damage suit being tried in district court A suit in which the plaintiff mrs maude S jones who has be been ap pointed administratrix of the estate of her former husband joseph M jones deceased is a ask asking ing damages in excess of 60 00 from the southern utah power co company in aimy is being tried in the district court for lion iron county as we go to press the plaintiff charge that through the negligence of the power company in m taking care can of thew their power lines her husband was electrocuted on the fifth day of july 1942 when ahm he came in contact with a high tension wire while cm crossing win the dam of the little rese reservoir ir new near enoch it is as charged that the wire had been loosened from a cross as arm IZ T on a power pole and in sagged ed low enough sc 0 if it at the he deceased wall walked ked into t on that night the case is b being tried by a jury of eight person four from here hem and four few from cedar city they in are thomas H rowley walter C mitchell charles F bentley and wm U th t n of this thes city caty maggin maggie macfarlane mary bergstrom heber C holyoak and J C little of 0 cedar attorney woodrow D white of salt lake city is a representing the plaintiff and is being assisted itis t d by dr plumb electrical en booser also of that city att attorney ine y durham morris moms of cedar city end and attorneys moreton menton and day of salt alakl lake city are am representing the d defendant fen company and district jud judge ge will L hoyt a on the bench court conver convened ad here bere on werries wednesday with much of that day being spent hearing M motions tiona and probate matters th T the a above case commenced d yesterday morning with the se lection of the a jury and plaint plaintiffs I 1 noney is a still being heard at the present time |