Henry v. Pittsb. Etc. R.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFE FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 214 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 322 April Term 1888, C. P. No. 2. On Mareb 1, 1888, John C. Henry brought trespass against the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company and Elliott Holbrook.
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFE FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 214 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 322 April Term 1888, C. P. No. 2. On Mareb 1, 1888, John C. Henry brought trespass against the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company and Elliott Holbrook. The first count of the plaintiff’s statement of claim averred, in substance, that on December 19, 1887, the defendant company, through said Holbrook, who was its general superintendent, maliciously and without probable cause suspended the plaintiff from the position of traveling passenger-agent of said…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION,
Mb. Cheep Justice Paxson :
The plaintiff seeks to hold the defendant company responsible in damages, because (a) he was, as he alleges, suspended from the service of the company maliciously, and without probable cause, under circumstances which tended to cast suspicion upon his integrity, and that, after an investigation, he was not reinstated, although the result of said investigation showed that he had committed no fraud upon the company; and (5) that the defendant company, through its general superintendent, Elliott Plolbrook, (one of the defendants,) at the time of such suspension…
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