Legal Opinion
Estate of Zimmerman v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 1, 1999No. 98-1631UnknownCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROSENN, Circuit Judge.
On August 6, 1994, the decedent Aaron Zimmerman, then twenty-three years of age, entered the area where trains run between 30th Street Station and Suburban Station in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he climbed to the top of a metal structure, which is approximately twenty-five feet tall and mounted in an upright position on a concrete foundation that supports a catenary at the top. A catenary is an arrangement of wires on a large steel framework. The wires connect the catenaries and carry high-voltage electricity to provide electric…
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