Carter v. United States Steel Corp.

CIRILLO, President Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, granting United States Steel Corporation’s (hereinafter USX) motion for a new trial, and denying its motion for judgment non obstante veredicto. We affirm.

In 1984, USX maintained and partially operated a steel manufacturing plant, known as the Carrie Furnace Works, along the eastern bank of the Monongahela River in the borough of Swissvale. Between December of 1983 and June of 1984, Andrew Carter, a fourteen year-old resident of Swissvale, frequently trespassed with his friends,…