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JOWETT v. PA. POWER COMPANY

383 Pa. 330 (1955)

Jowett, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Power Company.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 30, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin D. Power, with him Vito Adamo, John W. McWilliams, and Margiotti & Casey, for appellants.

C.E. Brockway, with him Brockway, Brockway & Acker, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, November 30, 1955:

Our State Reports contain an extraordinarily large number of decisions of cases dealing with deaths and severe injuries to persons accidentally touching high tension wires, but while they enunciate general legal principles governing the subject each depends largely upon its own particular facts. The present is apparently the first case in which the happening of a tragic accident of that nature was caused...

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