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MANAIA v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY

No. 7786.

268 F.2d 793 (1959)

George MANAIA, Jose Santos Gago, James R. Bice, Administrator of the Estate of Jose Lourenco, Deceased, State of Maryland to the use of Maria Da Conceicao Barreto, et al., Appellants, v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon E. Bernstein, Washington, D. C., and Herbert M. Brune, Baltimore, Md. (R. Edwin Brown, Harper M. Smith, Rockville, Md., and Newmyer & Bress, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

William B. Jones, Washington, D. C. (Robert R. Bair, Baltimore, Md., Cornelius Means, Hamilton & Hamilton, Washington, D. C., and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and PAUL and BOREMAN, District Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

Two employees of a paving contractor were killed and five others injured when the boom of a crane with which they were working was brought so close to high voltage wires that the current arced to the crane's cable and was conducted to the ground through the bodies of the unfortunate men who were touching the crane's metal load. Apparently because the deaths and injuries were compensable under Maryland's workmen's compensation act, M.G.L...

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