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DeSTEVENS v. HARSCO CORP.

No. 94-CA-1183.

652 So.2d 1054 (1995)

Susan Ann DeSTEVENS, et al. v. HARSCO CORPORATION, d/b/a Patent Scaffolding Co., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 16, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Scott Labarre, Gauthier & Murphy, Metairie, for plaintiffs.

James A. Babst, Brent A. Talbot, and Marc G. Shachat, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, for defendants.

Before BARRY, ARMSTRONG and PLOTKIN, JJ.

ARMSTRONG, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a summary judgment for one of the defendants in a wrongful death action. Darren DeStevens was killed by electrocution. He was using a scaffold to do work on the property of Sears, Roebuck and Company when the scaffold touched a powerline. His widow, Susan Ann DeStevens, sued Sears, the scaffold manufacturer and New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (NOPSI), the electric utility operating the powerline. Sears moved...

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