Legal Opinion
Nicola Panichella v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, (Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., a Corporation)
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 12, 1958No. 12292_1PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTIE, Circuit Judge.
On this appeal we find it appropriate to consider a procedural question raised by the election of the trial judge to enter an order under Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., 1 making the disposition of a third-party claim immediately appealable while the principal claim to which that third-party claim is incidental remains undecided.
The original plaintiff, Nicola Pan-ichella, who is not a party to this appeal, sued his employer, the Pennsylvania Railroad, for negligent injury under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U. S.C.A. § 51 et…
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3Cited by184 opinions
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