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Ginocchietti v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 18, 1940No. Appeal, 270PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Linn,

Plaintiff appeals from judgment on the record after the disagreement of the jury : Act of April 20, 1911, P. L. 70, 12 PS section 684. Her husband had been working with others in a tomato patch near defendant’s railway in the country and along or near a road crossing the railway to give access from a near-by public road to one or more farmhouses. The weather was clear. A dog fight began on or near the farm road and was continued along that road to and on the railway at the crossing. Plaintiff’s husband, not owning either of the dogs, followed to stop the fight. Prom…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. McAvoy v. KromerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
  2. Goater v. KlotzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  3. Parker v. Matheson Motor Car Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
  4. Propert v. FlanaganSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
  5. Custer v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Weibel v. FergusonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  2. Cox v. Wilkes-Barre Railway Corp.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  3. Cheslock v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
  4. Lopez v. CSX Transportation, Inc.District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 2017

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