Legal Opinion
Rossino v. Kovacs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 30, 1998No. 170 and 171 M.D. 1997PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.
The issue in this case is whether a possessor of land should be liable for injuries sustained by a police officer when the officer enters the land with no notice to the possessor in order to perform a police function not related to the land on which the injury occurred.
On August 25, 1992 Nicholas Rossino was a police officer employed by Haverford Township, Pennsylvania. At about 10:30 p.m. on August 25, 1992 he was part of a team engaged in serving a warrant on a suspected drug house at 711 Haverford Road. The assignment of Rossino’s team was to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Engel v. Parkway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
- Cutler v. Peck Lumber Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
3Cited by14 opinions
- Estate of Zimmerman v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transp. AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
- Cresswell v. EndSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- Laurie v. National Passenger RailroadCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2004
- Manfred ex rel. Estate of Gray v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 2015
- Estate of Zimmerman v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
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