Fire Insurance Patrol v. Boyd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 122 July Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 900 March Term 1883, C. P. No. 1. On April 17,1883, Julia F. Boyd, widow of Charles S. Boyd, deceased, and Herbert H. Boyd, son of said deceased, by B. W. Andrews, bis next friend and guardian, brought an action in case against The Fire Insurance Patrol of the city of Philadelphia, and James A. Hutchinson and Andrew C. Koochogey, its employees, to recover…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 122 July Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 900 March Term 1883, C. P. No. 1. On April 17,1883, Julia F. Boyd, widow of Charles S. Boyd, deceased, and Herbert H. Boyd, son of said deceased, by B. W. Andrews, bis next friend and guardian, brought an action in case against The Fire Insurance Patrol of the city of Philadelphia, and James A. Hutchinson and Andrew C. Koochogey, its employees, to recover damages for the loss sustained by the death of said Charles S. Boyd, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justice Paxson:
When this ease was here upon a former writ of error (see 113 Pa. 269), we did not decide the question whether the Fire Insurance Patrol was such a corporation as to bo exempt from the rule of respondeat superior, for the reason that we had little before us but the charter itself, and tbat was not regarded as sufficient to show satisfactorily the character of the corpora; *642tion. The case now comes up to us with additional light, and we have no difficulty in arriving at a conclusion.
Of the forty-two assignments of error I shall discuss only six, viz.: the 30th to the…
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