Fowler v. Tennessee Valley Authority

PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

These law suits arose from a horrible and deplorable occurrence. Two young men, married to sisters, undertook to erect for their father-in-law an outdoor television antenna. The families gathered at the home, and the young men set to work. They put the base of the aluminum pole in the ground. The pole tipped over and fell onto electric power lines in front of the house. The family, gathered in the living room, heard a loud “boom” and, running out, found the young men on the ground, apparently unconscious and partly in contact with the antenna. In about fifteen…