Fisher v. Ronemus
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 212, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Carbon Co., Oct. T., 1917, No. 49, refusing to take off nonsuit, in case of John Fisher et al. v. John S. Ronemus and Hugh McGorry, as custodians of the Death Beneficial Fund raised and created by the Organization of Mine Workingmen of the Village of Nesquehoning on account of the death of James Gallagher, 2d. Assumpsit for death benefits.
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Appeal, No. 212, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Carbon Co., Oct. T., 1917, No. 49, refusing to take off nonsuit, in case of John Fisher et al. v. John S. Ronemus and Hugh McGorry, as custodians of the Death Beneficial Fund raised and created by the Organization of Mine Workingmen of the Village of Nesquehoning on account of the death of James Gallagher, 2d. Assumpsit for death benefits. Before Barber, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit, which it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiffs appealed. Errors…
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Opinion by
Me. Chief Justice Brown,
Appellants’ first assignment of error, which is to the refusal of judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, cannot be considered, as no appeal was taken from the discharge of the rule for it, and more than eight months after the expiration of the period within which an appeal could have been taken, the case was called for trial. The two remaining assignments complain of errors then committed, and we pass upon them.
On June 10, 1878, a large majority of the men employed in and about the coal mines of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company at…
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