Legal Opinion

Riggs v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 9, 1983No. Appeal, No. 1240 C.D. 1982PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

Petitioners appeal an order of the Board of Claims (Board) which denied petitioners ’ claim against their employer, the Department of Transportation (DOT), for the value of work tools stolen from a DOT garage. We affirm..

Petitioners are mechanics for DOT and are stationed at the Christy Park garage, McKeesport, Pennsylvania.1 As a condition of their employment, they were each required to supply their own set of work *229tools, which, for their own convenience, they stored at the garage in their own locked cabinets. Sometime during the weekend of October 7, 1978, an unknown…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Sparrow v. Airport Parking Co. of AmericaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
  2. Commonwealth v. E. J. Albrecht Co.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  3. Riggs v. Commonwealth, Department of TranspontationCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1980

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  3. Windsor Communications Group, Inc. v. Metropolitan Consolidated Industries, Inc. (In Re Windsor Communications Group, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1987
  4. Al Makaaseb General Trading Co. v. United States Steel International, Inc.District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 2006
  5. Torres v. KallooSupreme Court of The Virgin Islands · 1997

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