Dagostino v. Rogers

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 284
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 113

Syllabus

<p>• Corporations — Mining companies — Operation of company’s store —Injury to business of neighboring store — Contract—Master and servant.</p> <p>Where a company or partnership operating a coke works conducts a store for the sale of general merchandise, it will not be liable in damages for injury to the business of the owner of a neighboring store, where there is no evidence that the company maliciously intended to injure the owner of the other store, or to drive him out of business, and the only testimony on the subject shows that the company’s superintendent told some of the company’s employees that they should and must patronize the company’s store if they desired i continue in their employment.</p> <p>There is no legal prohibition which forbids a company or partnership from making it a condition of employment that its employees shall patronize a store which it had provided for the use of its workmen. The exercise of such a right does not become wrongful because it incidentally interferes with the business of another storekeeper.</p>