Legal Opinion
Natale v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 17, 1987PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Kane, J.
Cross appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Dier, J.), entered October 22, 1986 in Schenectady County, upon a verdict in favor of plaintiff.
In this wrongful death action the following facts were elicited at trial. On June 25, 1981 while decedent, a 57-year-old truck driver, was driving his tractor trailer, it came into contact with an aerial cable owned by defendant New York Telephone Company (hereinafter NYT) strung across utility poles. As a result of this contact, one of the utility poles, along with other cable wires, fell onto the trailer portion of decedent’s vehicle.…
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