Boscia v. Massaro

CIRILLO, President Judge:

This is an appeal challenging the grant of a new trial by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. We affirm.

On June 21, 1982, appellee Louis Boscia, was employed as an Investment Certificate Supervisor by the Signal Finance Corporation. He worked out of a newly constructed building owned by Joseph and Carolyn Massaro and managed by Oliver Realty Inc. The building was serviced by two hydraulic elevators which had been manufactured, sold and installed by appellant, Schindler-Haughton Elevator Company.

At trial, Mr. Boscia alleged that at 6:30 a.m. on that day, he…