Legal Opinion
Pompeii Estates, Inc. v. Consolidated Edison Co.
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided August 16, 1977PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHerbert A. Posner, J.
The "Dawn of the Age of Aquarius” has also ushered in the "Age of the Computer”.
There is no question that the modem computer is as indispensable to big business as the washing machine is to the American household. To ask the American housewife to go back to washing clothes by hand is as unthinkable as asking Consolidated Edison to send out its monthly bills by any other method than the computer.
This is an action in negligence by a builder against a public utility for damages sustained as a result of the alleged "wrongful” termination of electricity at an unoccupied one-family house (that had…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Caldwell v. Village of Island ParkNew York Court of Appeals · 1952
- Noce v. KaufmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1957
- Sadowski v. Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1944
- William Gardam & Son v. BattersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Hall v. Consolidated Edison Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1980
- Brooklyn Union Gas Co. v. MacGregor's Custom Coach, Inc.Civil Court of the City of New York · 1983
- McDermott v. Travellers Air Services, Inc.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1979
- Lanni v. Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.Rochester City Court · 1983