Yeagley v. Metropolitan Edison Co.

GATES, P.J.,

Frederick A. Yeagley, decedent, was killed in a job related accident while working on a metal outrigger of a crane when its boom came in contact with an overhead high voltage transmission line owned by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met Ed). His personal representative instituted this action in trespass and assumpsit against Met Ed and the Unit Crane and Shovel Corporation. Met Ed in turn joined a fellow worker, William Harter, and Cleaver-Brooks, decedent’s employer, as additional defendants, alleging that it was the sole or joint negligence of the additional defendants which…