Legal Opinion

Brown v. Personeni

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 12, 1937No. Appeal, 120PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schafpeb,

The question here presented is whether the service of a writ is good. The court below held the service valid. Defendant appeals under the Act of March 5,1925, P. L. 23, 12 P.S. Sec. 672.

The statement of claim served with the writ alleges that plaintiffs own land in Monroe County and that defendant owns adjoining lands. It further sets forth that defendant’s employees, with his knowledge, started a .fire on his lands, which got out of control and burned over three hundred acres of plaintiffs’ land, doing damage in a large sum.

Plaintiffs began suit in Monroe…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. Bay State Milling Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
  2. McNitt v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. National Dairy Products Corp. v. Gleeson, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County1958
  2. Ferraro v. Crowell, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Armstrong County1961
  3. Baier v. Sprague & Henwood, Inc., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County1937
  4. Weaver v. Chunk, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Mercer County1938

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