Legal Opinion
Mowrey v. Johnson & Johnson
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 27, 1981No. Civ. A. 81-134 EriePublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEBER, Chief Judge.
At first blush it may seem unusual for a United States District Court in Pennsylvania to be presiding over a controversy between residents of Florida, New Jersey and Canada, involving the death of African lions in Quebec. Yet in this diversity case that is precisely what we are called upon to do.
On June 12, 1979, six trained African lions, performers with the Gatini Circus, suddenly and mysteriously became ill while touring with the circus in Quebec Province, Canada.' Ultimately all six of the animals succumbed to this illness, the last of the troupe dying in Erie,…
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