Jowett v. Pennsylvania Power Co.

Opinion by

Mb. Chief Justice Hobace Stebn,

Our State Reports contain an extraordinarily large number of decisions of cases dealing with deaths and severe injuries to persons accidentally touching high tension wires, but while they enunciate general legal principles governing the subject each depends largely upon its own particular facts. The present is apparently the first case in which the happening of a tragic accident of that nature was caused by a television antenna — which its owners were engaged in repairing— breaking and coming into contact with the lines of a public utility company.

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