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KOPKA v. BELL TELEPHONE CO. OF PA.

371 Pa. 444 (1952)

Kopka v. The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Reargued May 28, 1952.

June 24, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ella Graubert, with her Patterson, Crawford, Arensberg & Dunn, for defendant, telephone company, appellant.

E.V. Buckley, with him Mercer & Buckley, for plaintiff, appellee.

Ernest C. Reif, with him Dickie, McCamey, Chilcote, Reif & Robinson, for additional defendant.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE HORACE STERN, June 24, 1952:

This litigation involves the question of the right of a possessor of land to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him in consequence of a trespasser's invasion of his property.

At the request of residents of a township in Indiana County for telephone service the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, defendant in this suit, had its engineers stake out a line along a road bordering the farm...

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