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HYNDMAN v. PA. RAILROAD CO.

396 Pa. 190 (1959)

Hyndman v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Voorhees, with him Gordon W. Gerber, and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, for appellant.

Elwood S. Levy, with him Charles A. Lord, Seymour I. Toll, and Richter, Lord & Levy, for appellees.

Before JONES, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN and McBRIDE, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, May 8, 1959:

This is an action in trespass brought by Ronald Kenneth Hyndman, a minor, by his mother Elizabeth W. Hyndman as his guardian and in her own right, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (appellant). The minor appellee suffered serious electrical burns when he came in contact with a portion of the transformer apparatus housed on a platform affixed to appellant's catenary pole near Langhorne, Pennsylvania, along the railroad...

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