Betcher v. McChesney
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 43, Oct. T., 1916, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny 'Co., April T., 1914, No. 159, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Walter F. Betcher v. Robert P. McChesney. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for $4,750 and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were in refusing to direct a verdict for defendant, answers to points and instructions to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The immediate, proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury was the negligent act of one Rineman, who at the time of the accident was an employee of the defendant and engaged about the latter’s business. There is no suggestion in the record that the defendant was a joint tort *396feasor with Rineman; indeed, such suggestion, if advanced, could hardly be expected to meet with acceptance, inasmuch as it is a fact insisted upon by the plaintiff, and established by the finding,of the jury, that these men stood in the relation of master and servant at the time. Joint tort…
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