SULLIVAN v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

No. 12291.

226 F.2d 290 (1955)

Morris G. SULLIVAN, Administrator of the Estates of Edward John Kowals, deceased, and Harry Clayton Bowers, deceased, Appellants, v. The GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Aircraft Propulsion Project Division, General Electric Realty Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

October 20, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter A. Kelley, Cincinnati, Ohio (Kelley & Sullivan, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brief), for appellants.

Leo J. Brumleve, Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellees.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and MARTIN and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


SIMONS, Chief Judge.

On April 2, 1952, while unloading steel beams from a gondola freight car on property of General Electric Company at Evendale, near Cincinnati, Ohio, the decedents were killed by a high voltage electric current, due to contact or proximity between the crane they were using and the wires. Another ironworker by the name of Schwarz was seriously injured. The work was being done by the Duffy Construction Corporation which had been employed by the General...

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