Hopkins v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.

CLARY, District Judge.

This is an action instituted by plaintiff, a citizen of Maryland, duly appointed Administratrix of minor decedent’s estate, to recover damages under the Survival Act of 1937, 20 P.S.Pa. c. 3 Appendix, §§ 771, 772. The minor decedent, Charles A. Lichtenwalner, was electrocuted- on August 28, 1951, when he came in contact with high tension electric wires maintained by the defendant. More than six months after the minor’s death, suit was instituted under the Wrongful Death Act of 1855, 12 P.S.Pa. §§ 1602, 1603, in the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County by the minor’s…