Legal Opinion
Cardinal v. Long Island Power Authority
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 10, 2004No. 0:99-cv-08182PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
FEUERSTEIN, District Judge.
I. Introduction
On June 26, 1999, Trevor Cardinal and Stanley Irwin, Jr. were discarding a pile of tree limbs and branches down an embankment onto property owned by Keyspan Generation. (Cardinal’s Local Civil Rule 56.1 Statement in Reply to Utility Defs.’ Mot. para. 35-44). Trevor Cardinal, while standing near the crest of the embankment, was burned when a tree branch he was lifting touched one of LIPA’s electric transmission lines located approximately four (4) feet above the embankment’s plane and twenty-three (23) feet beyond the top of the…
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