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DRAPER v. AIRCO, INC.

Nos. 77-1836, 77-1837 and 77-1905.

580 F.2d 91 (1978)

Dorothy L. DRAPER, Individually and as General Administratrix and Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Robert W. Draper, Deceased, v. AIRCO, INC. and United States Steel Corporation, Defendants and AIRCO, INC., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant in No. 77-1836, v. W. V. PANGBORNE & CO., INC., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant in No. 77-1837. Appeal of UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION in No. 77-1905.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Land, Philadelphia, Pa. and Robert T. Healey, Haddonfield, N. J., for appellee, Dorothy L. Draper.

L. Carter Anderson, Carl D. Buchholz, III, Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant, U. S. Steel Corp.

John R. Gercke, Schuenemann, Gercke & Picknally, Haddonfield, N. J., for appellant, W. V. Pangborne & Co., Inc.

Norman G. Slade, Porzio & Bromberg, P. C., Morristown, N. J., for appellant, Airco, Inc.

Before ADAMS, HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and BECHTLE, District Judge.

OPINION

A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.

On September 23, 1970, Robert Draper, an electrician, died apparently from electrocution while installing a switch on an energized line on the premises of the United States Steel Corporation. The decedent's wife instituted this wrongful death and survival action against U.S. Steel, Airco, Inc. and W. V. Pangborne & Co., in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Jurisdiction is...

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