Driver v. Potomac Electric Power Company

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• affirming summary judgment based on contributory negligence on workman’s act of raising boom high enough to hit power lines
• “[U]sually it is neither advisable or practicable to enter a Summary Judgment in a tort action.”
• “[U]sually it is neither advisable or practicable to enter a Summary Judgment in a tort action.”
• knowledge of danger of electricity will be imputed to most plaintiffs
• 17-year-old, with eighth grade education, whose affidavit stated that he was not aware that power line he saw was conducting electricity, held, on defendant's motion for summary judgment, contributorily negligent when he drove his well-digging rig into power line
• 17-year-old, with eighth grade education, whose affidavit stated that he was not aware that power line he saw was conducting electricity, held, on defendant’s motion for summary judgment, contributorily negligent when he drove his well-digging rig into power line

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