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CANTWELL v. BRISTOL TOWNSHIP

412 Pa. 469 (1963)

Cantwell, Appellant, v. Bristol Township.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 12, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyson W. Coughlin, with him Hamilton C. Connor, Jr., Robert Baker, and Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, for appellant.

George T. Kelton, with him Begley, Carlin, Mandio, Kelton & Popkin, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION PER CURIAM, November 12, 1963:

Judgment affirmed.

DISSENTING OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO:

Joseph Francis Cantwell, 23 years of age, healthy, strong, married, gainfully employed, and with a horizon of life's happiness unmarred by a single cloud, went swimming in the summer of 1958 in the Lagenfelder Lake in Bristol Township, Bristol County. This aquatic excursion ended in his being paralyzed for...

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