Victor Alvarez Teal v. Kings Farms Company

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Victor Alvarez Teal, appeals from an Order denying his motion for a new trial and judgment on a directed verdict for the defendant, Kings Farms Company, in his action to recover damages for severe injuries suffered in an assault on him by a fellow employee on defendant’s farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Jurisdiction is based on diversity. 1 Pennsylvania law controls.

Plaintiff’s theory, below and here, is that defendant breached its duty to adequately police his property so as to prevent injuries to persons thereon by any of its employees, and that…