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VARGUS v. PITMAN MFG. CO.

Civ. A. No. 79-987.

510 F.Supp. 116 (1981)

Wendy VARGUS, Ind. and as Administratrix of the Estate of Jesse H. Vargus, Dec'd v. PITMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. HENKELS & McCOY, INC.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 11, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Ryan, Kean K. McDonald, Peter J. Neeson, Labrum & Doak, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Sidney L. Wickenhaver and James R. Wendelgass, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WEINER, District Judge.

This action was brought by the plaintiff seeking damages under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Statutes. Plaintiff's husband was electrocuted in Liberia while operating a hydra-lift truck-mounted crane to pick up a partially empty cable reel, when the boom of the crane came in contact with an overhead 12,000 volt high tension line, or came close enough to cause an arcing of current from the...

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