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SESSUMS v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT CO.

No. 80-3423.

652 F.2d 579 (1981)

E. B. SESSUMS and Sharon Sessums, Etc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

Rehearing Denied September 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl J. Schumacher, Jr., C. David Schumacher, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Eugene G. Taggart, New Orleans, La., for Louisiana Power & Light.

Before CHARLES CLARK and GEE, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, District Judge.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Sessums, filed this Louisiana diversity case to recover damages for the death by electrocution of their nineteen-year-old son Steven. Several months before his fatal accident, Steven Sessums had helped his fiance's family, the Dunhams, erect above their home a citizen's band antenna (the commercially produced antenna was extended to a total length of about 45 feet by attachment to the end of an iron pipe and aluminum...

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