Legal Opinion

Mayhugh v. Somerset Telephone Co

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 5, 1920No. Appeal, No. 22PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Appeal, No. 22, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from order of C. P. Somerset Co., Dec. T., 1917, No. 111, making absolute rule for subrogation in case of Benjamin H. Mayhugh to use of State Workmen’s Insurance Fund v. Somerset Telephone Company. Rule for subrogation. Before Baldwin, P. J., specially presiding. The court made the rule absolute. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was the order of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Benjamin H. Mayhugh, an employee of the Bockwood Electric Light Company, was injured while in its employ, through the negligence of the Somerset Telephone Company, and recovered a judgment against it for $4,812, which we have this day affirmed in appeal No. 85, October Term, 1919. (See next case.) The State Workmen’s Insurance Fund paid the injured employee $1,-735.17 and the court below, on its petition, ordered that this amount of the judgment be marked to its use. From this order the Somerset Telephone Company has appealed. As we have affirmed the judgment against it, it cannot…

2Cited by23 opinions

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