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EDWARDS v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP.

Civ. A. No. 82-1874.

567 F.Supp. 1087 (1983)

Eldee EDWARDS, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van S. Powers, Hyattsville, Md., for plaintiffs.

Stephen A. Trimble, James B. Sarsfield, David M. Moore, Hamilton & Hamilton, Washington, D.C., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM ON SUMMARY JUDGMENT

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

I

On July 7, 1979, plaintiff Eldee Edwards, Jr. (hereinafter "plaintiff"), who was 11 years old at the time, climbed on top of one of defendant's trains and was seriously injured by exposure to a high-voltage electric wire ("catenary wire") that was suspended 18½ feet above the tracks and supplies power to defendant's through trains. Invoking federal diversity jurisdiction, plaintiff...

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