Ruffner v. Jamison Coal & Coke Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 191, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Westmoreland Co., May T., 1912, No. .590, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Frank W. Ruffner v. Jamison Coal & Coke Company. Trespass to recover damages for assault and battery. Before McConnell, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The trial judge entered a compulsory nonsuit which the court in banc subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 191, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Westmoreland Co., May T., 1912, No. .590, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Frank W. Ruffner v. Jamison Coal & Coke Company. Trespass to recover damages for assault and battery. Before McConnell, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The trial judge entered a compulsory nonsuit which the court in banc subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was in refusing to take off the non-suit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mosciizisker,
The error assigned is the refusal to take off a compulsory nonsuit.
The case and the controlling views of the court below are well and fairly shown in the following excerpts from *36the opinion of Judge McConnell : “The plaintiff’s statement alleges: ‘That prior to, at, and after, the time of the commission of the grievances hereinafter complained of, the defendant had in its employ a large force of agents and servants acting as policemen or peace officers in and about its. several mines and coke plants...... That, on or about the 9th day of May, 1911, the said…
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