Chambers v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

PALLADINO, Judge.

John Chambers (Appellant) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court) granting Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) motion for summary judgment relying on to 42 Pa.C.S. § 8522. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

On September 15, 1986, Appellant and two friends boarded SEPTA’s Broad Street subway at City Hall in order to attend an “AC-DC” rock concert at the Spectrum. About three stops before Pattison Avenue (the stop at the Spectrum) nine loud and rowdy youths boarded the subway train and began making…