Finfrock v. Northern Central Railway Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 21, March T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. York Co., April T., 1913, No. 13, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Harry Finfrock v. Northern Central Railway Company. Trespass to recover damages for false arrest and assault. Before Wanner, P. J. The circumstances of the arrest are set forth in the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 21, March T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. York Co., April T., 1913, No. 13, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Harry Finfrock v. Northern Central Railway Company. Trespass to recover damages for false arrest and assault. Before Wanner, P. J. The circumstances of the arrest are set forth in the opinion of the Superior Court. Defendant presented the following points: 1. Frederick E. Borman, the policeman who arrested Harry Finfrock, the plaintiff, was appointed by the governor under the Act of Assembly entitled “An.Act empowering railroads to employ police force,”…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The plaintiff testified that, while he stood on the railroad platform at the corner of the defendant’s railroad shed at Duke street, in the city of York, waiting for a train to pass, two strange men came up and asked him if the train went to Harrisburg, and he replied that he did not know; that then the train moved and one of these men jumped on it, but jumped off when it stopped immediately afterward. Thereupon, he says, Bert Geiselman, the defendant’s baggage master, appeared and this occurred: '.“I have got you;’ and I said, ‘What for;’ and he said, ‘You were on this…
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