:JUDGMENT:

The defendants in the suit filed the above second appeal, aggrieved by the judgment and decree dated 26.09.2019 in A.S.No.44 of 2015 on the file of learned VII Additional District and Sessions Judge, Vijayawada reversing the judgment and decree dated 20.08.2014 in O.S.No.76 of 2012 on the file of learned Second Additional Senior Civil Judge, Vijayawada.

2. For the sake of convenience and brevity, the parties herein are referred to as per their array in the suit O.S.No.76 of 2012.

3. The plaintiff filed O.S.No.76 of 2012, claiming compensation of Rs.3,40,000/- due to the death of her husband on 21.05.2011 because of contact with live electricity supply wire at Kotikalapudi Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Krishna District.

4. The averments in the plaint, in brief, are that the plaintiff’s husband, Shaik Sikinder, an agricultural labourer, went to the fields of Velgaleti Pothuraju at about 7:00 a.m. on the fateful day, to cut grass, and did not turn up. Since the plaintiff’s husband did not return, she went to the fields at about 10:30 a.m. and found her husband lying dorsally and dead due to electrocution. On hearing the cries of the plaintiff, the neighbours gathered at the sp