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· 8/6/1959

Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. King

Citations

  • 114 So. 2d 184

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that this Court cannot overturn a court’s credibility determinations in a PFA matter
  • holding this Court does not have the authority to overturn the trial court’s credibility determinations in a PFA case
  • quoted in Mescanti v. Mescanti, 956 A.2d 1017, 1020 (Pa. Super. 2008). S.W. v. S.F., 196 A.3d 224, 230 (Pa. Super. 2018
  • “This court defers to the credibility determinations of the trial court as to witnesses who appeared before it.”
  • credibility determinations cannot be based on whether or not police choose to act against the alleged perpetrator
  • “It is well settled that neither the PFA Act nor caselaw requires that a police report be filed in order to obtain a PFA.”

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Judges: Carroll, Donald, Sturgis, Wigginton

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