Murtha Et Ux. v. Phila.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Parker, J.,
The questions involved in this appeal concern the right of one tort-feasor to recover from another alleged tort-feasor contribution for the amounts of verdicts recovered by the plaintiffs against the former and paid by it.
The plaintiffs on November 7,1928 brought an action in trespass against the city of Philadelphia to recover damages aidsing from injuries suffered by the wife plaintiff when in leaving a street car of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company she stepped in a hole in the cartway of a public street. On January 30, 1932, more than two years after the date of…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Gray v. Boston Gas Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Vinnacombe v. Phila. Am. S.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
- Goldman v. Mitchell-Fletcher Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
- Churchill v. HoltMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Rudman Et Ux. v. City of ScrantonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
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- Pracuta v. Alex C. Ferguson Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1941