In this wrongful death action the following facts were elicited at trial. On June 25, 1981 while decedent, a 57-year-old truck driver, was driving his tractor trailer, it came into contact with an aerial cable owned by defendant New York Telephone Company (hereinafter NYT) strung across utility poles. As a result of this contact, one of the utility poles, along with other cable wires, fell onto the trailer portion of decedent's vehicle. One of...
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