Bausbach v. Reiff

Citations

• 237 Pa. 482
• 85 A. 762
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 955

Syllabus

<p>Conspiracy — Combination to deprive a person of work — Trespass.</p> <p>1. In. an action of trespass against twenty-eight men the plaintiff states a good cause of action, when he charges that the defendants entered into a conspiracy which culminated in a written demand signed by them, on the common employer of plaintiff and defendants, which demand amounted to a threat that unless the plaintiff was discharged, the defendants would embarrass the employer’s! business by quitting work in a body.</p> <p>Evidence — Rejection of evidence — Matter partly irrelevant.</p> <p>2. Where offers of evidence for the plaintiff support a good cause of action, and the offers are objected to not because any specified portions are! inadmissible, but on the ground that as a whole they were immaterial and irrelevant, and did not make out a ease for the jury, the court commits reversible error if it rejects, the offers, although they may have contained matter which was irrelevant.</p> <p>Appeals — Entry of nonsuit• — Assignment of error.</p> <p>3. An appeal does not lie from the entry of a compulsory non-suit, but only from a refusal to take the nonsuit off.</p> <p>Moschzisker, J., dissents.</p>