Rinker v. Colonial Iron Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 115, Oct. T., 1916, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Dec. T., 1914, No. 27, on verdict for plaintiffs in case of Mary Rinker and D. S. Rinker, her husband, v. Colonial Iron Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Euppel, P. J., specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 115, Oct. T., 1916, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Dec. T., 1914, No. 27, on verdict for plaintiffs in case of Mary Rinker and D. S. Rinker, her husband, v. Colonial Iron Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Euppel, P. J., specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that on June 18, 1914, the plaintiff, Mary Rinker, was struck and injured by a stone which had been projected from the defendant’s quarry on to a neighboring property where Mrs. Rinker was at the time she was injured. The court admitted under objection and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Portee, J.,
Prior to the Act of May 8,1895, P. L. 54, where a married woman suffered an injury to her person by the negligent act of another, she had a cause of action in her own right personal to herself. Her husband in such a case also had a right of action resting on an entirely different foundation from that supporting the claim of his wife.
The act cited made no attempt to convert these two separate rights into one joint right. On the contrary, it related only to the procedure in such cases.' It declares: “These two rights of action shall be redressed in only one suit brought in…
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