Jowett v. Pennsylvania Power Co.

Braham, P. J.,

Plaintiff, Marjorie Jowett, is administratrix of her deceased husband, Lee A. Jowett, and Jonathan Jowett is the father of Lee A. Jowett, now deceased. Lee was killed and Jonathan was burned by a bolt of electricity from defendant’s *530lines which reached them when the television aerial which they were repairing fell into defendant’s line. The repairs consisted of reattaching to the antennae a guy wire which had become detached during a storm.

At trial of plaintiffs’ suit for damages a compulsory nonsuit was entered. Their motion to take off the compulsory nonsuit is pending before…