Schriner v. Pa. Power & Light Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that utility will be held to strict liability, under certain circumstances, for sale of electricity
• stating that there is no reason why a jury could not become familiar with the problem of stray voltage injuries to dairy cattle
• stating that there is no reason why a jury could not become familiar with the problem of stray voltage injuries to dairy cattle
• “electricity only becomes a product, for purposes of strict liability, once it passes through the customer’s meter and into the stream of commerce”
• “[W]hile still in the distribution system, electricity is a service, not a product; electricity only becomes a product, for purposes of strict liability, once it passes through the customer’s meter and into the stream of commerce”
• electricity becomes a product when it passes through customer’s meter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).